Volume 3

You're finally back

"Oum damn that man, how can someone be this infuriating." Winter clicked the power button on her scroll showing a picture that Klein took. It was her and Weiss back when they were kids. Winter was standing next to Weiss with her left hand on her sister's shoulder. Both sisters had bright smiles on their faces something that was very rare back in those days.

But Winter was more focus on the time she had missed the tournament battle between team RWBY and team ABRN. Which just added fuel to the fire in her eyes. Winter was about to give up and just tell Ozpin that 'the asshole didn't show'.

But like magic she heard a half drunk man yell her name. "Winterrrr how'ss my favorite sell out?"

'I'm not going to let him bait me into a fight. Not this time.' Winter faced Qrow with her usual emotionless soldier face. "Mr. Branwen, you are late please follow me up to Headmaster Ozpin's office."

As Qrow followed her, he continued to try and get under her skin. "So I see irondick brought his fleet with him. Hey ice queen you're very close with him is he compensating for something?"

Winter sighed she could feel a headache coming and it was all thanks to him. He always had to insinuation that her and Ironwood's relationship was more than just a boss and his employee. "General Ironwood has been like a father to me I have never or would ever push our relationship passed that. Unlike you I don't try to sleep with everybody I see."

Qrow snorted as he pulled out his flask, after taking a swig of whiskey he gained a mischievous look on his face. "Well 'unlike you' I injury the company of a lovely person especially one that knows when to let loose and have fun. Even back when I saw you in school you had no friends and were always such a loner."

'I remember the day it was my first year at atlas, the old combat instructor got caught snorting Z dust in the supply closest. So someone decided to ask a professor that was in town to step in and take over the classes. Three months of seeing that asshole come into class and tell me that my teamwork was shit and I needed to work on my people skills. All that did was piss me off even more.'

"I guess with your daddy issues it's a miracle you didn't kill your own teammates." Qrow chuckled as he remembered all the death glares she gave anybody who tried to get close to her. Winter had enough of Qrow's prodding 'It's time he felt what it's like.' Winter thought with a wicked smile on her face.

"Well at least I never tried to fuck my partner." Winter heard Qrow stop right then and there, she couldn't help but grin she finally hit a nerve. "General Ironwood told me the story, you always tried to get her attention but she only had eyes for your friend. That must've stung-"

"WINTER! You are walking on very thin ice." Qrow was visibly shaking with anger but Winter was still facing away from him. She couldn't see the extreme rage building up in Qrow.

Winter wanted more pay back so she continued pushing him. "I can say I blame her with your attitude and dependence on alcohol I would be embarrassed to have you as a teammate."

After waiting a few seconds for a comeback that never came Winter turned around. She saw Qrow staring at the ground he was as still as a statue. Winter was getting a little worried about him it wasn't normal for him to be so quiet. But before she could say anything Qrow blow up.

"Ok you fuck spoiled little bitch if you want to hurt me then do it with your sword. Because I would rather be stabbed then hear you talk about Summer like you knew her." Qrow started moving closer to her with his hand gripping the hilt of his weapon. Winter was now scared she'd never seen Qrow act like this. "Qr..Qrow..what are you doing?"

He pulled out his sword and said. "What? You want to fight so let's fight." Swing his sword downward Winter rolled out of the way. Qrow hit the ground creating a creator in front of the school.

Winter created two glyphs on either side of her, two beowolves appeared and charged towards him. Qrow used his shotgun and easily took both of them out with two shots.

Qrow switched back to his sword as Winter pulled out her dagger the two squared up each other. Qrow swayed from side to side still being affected by the alcohol he drank earlier. Winter's stance mimicked a professional fencer, their blades tapped telling them the fight has begun.

Qrow started with heavy swings trying to break through Winter's defenses but the ice queen shielded herself with one of her glyphs. Then thrusted her sword at Qrow's torso.

The drunk bird was more flexibly than Winter remembered he bent his torso to the side and avoided the attack. Winter tried again with her other blade but the huntsmen transformed into a crow and flow to the top of a nearby tree.

Winter sent hundreds of mini nevermores after him. But Qrow was a great flyer he dodged them as he flow towards Winter.

He was to close now Winter's only hope was to hit him before he turns back into his human form. She pulled back her arm trying to predict where he would be. He was like a fly moving from spot to spot with great speed, Winter will only have one shot.

With all her might she swung...the world seemed to slow as the blade got closer and closer to Qrow. Winter could see that her swing was off by just a hair instead if clipping his wing it just graced passed it.

Winter felt the slam into her face as he zipped passed her face and transformed back into a human. Without missing a beat he slammed the butt of his hilt against the ice queen's head. Knocking her to the ground she watched as Qrow lifted his sword above his head.

'Is he actually going to kill me!' Winter squeezed her eyes shut as the sword came down. Her fear got the better of her which caused her to scream. "QROW!"

Winter felt the tip of his sword touch her nose, her eye's burst open seeing the drunk huntsman leveling his sword at her. He looked like a completely different person when he holstered his weapon he said. "You've improved ice queen but you're nowhere near my skill. Oh and next time you bring up Summer I won't go easy on you."

"Are you two done?" The two adults faced the speaker who turned out to be Coal with Blake standing next to him. Behind him was a huge group of students who watched the fight.

Qrow grow a smile when he saw the student. "Hey kid it's been what ten months since the vacuo mission?" Coal glared at Qrow for a few seconds before speaking. "Qrow, Ozpin want to speak to you right now. Winter and I will join you in a minute."

With a mocking salute Qrow said "Yes ssssssir!" then he stumbled his way to beacon. Coal helped Winter back to her feet. "Can't leave you two alone for a second." Winter brushed the dirt off of her uniform. "Coal, not in the mood for you're sarcasm."

Coal shrugged as Winter makes her way to Ozpin's office. Blake tapped on Coal's shoulder and asked. "Was that Yang and Ruby's uncle?" Coal nodded then said. "Hey. I got to attend a meeting after that you want to hang out?"

"Yeah that sounds nice. Besides these a new bookstore I've been wanting to check out." Coal patted Blake's head and asked. "Why didn't you just drag Yang there?"

Blake shifted her weight on to one foot and crossed her arms. "Trying to convince Yang to read when she doesn't have to is impossible. Trust me I've tried."

"Well to be fair all your books are either romantic or historic. Both of those don't seem like they would be Yang's cup of tea. She just needs to find a genre that she's interested in like...action and adventure." Coal scratches his head trying to think of a good story for Yang.

Blake snaps her fingers and says. "T.K. Brawler. It's about a guy boxing to keep his family feed."

"Couldn't hurt to try. Well I better get going before I get chewed out by Glynda." Coal ran to caught up with Winter.

As the elevator got closer to Ozpin's office Winter got more and more tense she know Ironwood would be furious with her. She endangered innocent students and caused damage to another headmaster's school.

Coal placed his hand on her shoulder and gave her a reassuring smile. "Worrying isn't going to do anybody any good just take the verbal onslaught and promise not to do it again it all works out after that."

"I'm guessing you have a lot of experience with verbal onslaughts. Having criminals as bosses." Winter appreciated Coal trying to help but this incident could get her court-martialed and thrown out of the military. She didn't really have a plan for what to do if that happened.

"Well criminals don't like wasting their time so instead of yelling at the guys who fucked up they would normally just kill them. But Ray and I were lucky the crime families we worked for were very understanding and know even if we messed up we were still more valuable alive." Coal chuckled as he remembered getting caught in bed with a crime lord's daughter. Instead of killing him he treated him like a future son in law.

Bing bing

Winter took one last deep breath as the doors opened. In the office was Bob and Torchwick on the left whispering something back and forth. Raven was leaning against the wall on the right she watched her brother being yelled at.

Ozpin was sitting at his desk sipping his coffee and staring off into space. Glynda was next to him she was rubbing her temples trying to get rid of her headache that was probably caused by the two men in the middle of the room.

Speaking of whom Qrow and Ironwood stood in the middle of the room. Qrow was still drinking from his flask as Ironwood yelled.

"YOU ATTACKED AN ATLAS SPECIALIST I COULD HAVE YOU KILLED FOR THAT!" Ironwood pressed his finger against Qrow's chest as he yelled. Qrow didn't seemed to bothered by the general's threats. "Save it Irondick we both know a huntsman can't be punished for their actions by a kingdom they didn't get their license from.

If you want you can send a letter to the vale council explaining all my crimes but with the white fang attacks. They probably won't have time for it and even after the fang falls they would see it as a minor offence and just charged me for the damages."

Ironwood gritted his teeth as Qrow laid out what would happen. Ironwood was used to threatening younger huntsman and huntresses who barely know how the discipline system worked. But Qrow was a master of breaking rules and getting away with it.

Ironwood's attention turned to Winter, as she and Coal walked into the room. "Specialist Schnee are you ok?"

Winter salutes her boss then says. "Yes but there are more important matters like the escape of Mercury Black and Adam Taurus. How can two people escape without anyone noticing for weeks? The only reason we found out Mercury was gone was because Coal and I fought him."

Ozpin leaned back in his chair sighing as he explained the situation. "It seems Salem has people in our prisons. I've gone over the records and everyone of the prison guards that said 'Adam and Mercury are still in prison' can't be found. The weirdest thing is their families say that they haven't heard from them in weeks. It's like they just vanished."

"If Salem can create new grimm maybe she's made one that can take human form. It would explain the guards and how there was someone that looked just like Ray." Raven speaks her mind as everyone moves closer to Ozpin's desk. Now they were all standing in a circle Ozpin had to say something.

"While the tournament is going on we need to move carefully. I've already convince the council to release a news report that says. Adam Taurus is still in jail and that the rumors of him being out are just that rumors.

As of now the information of Adam's escape can only be known by the people in this room. And teams RWBY, CLVR, and the other headmasters. With the white fangs leader out they've gone back to being our most dangerous enemy.

Now go and spend time with your loved ones because I think Salem is planning something huge and we will need all the help we can get." With that Qrow, Raven, and Winter left to go see Ruby, Yang, and Weiss. Coal tried to follow them into the elevator but Ironwood stopped him.

"I need to talk to you." Coal was hesitant but agreed and when the elevator came back up they both stepped on it. Coal's eyes darted from Ironwood to the screen which showed the floor they were heading to. 'We're going to floor ten all that's there is the library I really hope he isn't going to kill me in a library.'

Coal was joking but he noticed Ironwood sweeting and he wasn't the stone faced general that Coal had come to know. He looked panicked he tried to hide it but Coal know something was going down when this elevator stopped.

So I'm an idiot no doubt about that. You might be thinking why isn't this chapter longer. Well life and my procrastination decided to work together and fuck me.

But I've learned something I've made a lot of chapters and my grasp of what has happen is messed up.

Fun fact I forgot Mercury was captured yeah and that lead me to make a huge fuck up but I've tried to fix it.

So some changes I'm going to reread my entire story so these mistakes won't happen again. Sorry guys

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Team CLVR fact: I have a plan for Qrow he's going to be more important later on but for right now I'll try to use him as much as possible.