Summary/disclaimer: Time for another chapter of Wolf and Reaper. Enjoy the 900-word chapter. I don't own RWBY, Monty Oum and Rooster Teeth do.

(Vale.)

The Mistral Cargo ship was silent, it would be traveling to a village on the outskirts of Mistral. Ruby had checked the distance from Haven to the village of Oniyuri. Ruby was grateful the pilot was willing to let them hitch a ride if they helped load the ship.

30 or so miles, they'd find an airship or some other travel route and take it from there.

Ruby was cut off by Azul shifting from his position in the corner of the ship. He sighed and brushed off his new clothing.

His new attire consisted of a darkish purple and blue turtleneck over a blackish blue jacket which had had clipped his cloak. His symbol had been moved to a greyish belt which also held his weapon. He now wore purple fingerless gloves along with purple and black jeans with lines of blue traveling down them.

He held several canisters of Dust on his belt, arms and thighs and had a blueish backpack which held the rest of his supplies.

"Your being quiet again," Ruby stated. she was getting worried Azul didn't want to be part of the trip to the next kingdom.

"I'll be fine, what's the plan when we touch down? we run to the next village?" Azul shifted his weight again.

Ruby had a feeling he was still not only angry at himself, but the thought of being airborne? The same place she knew had been the environment which AMET had been slain in, put Azul in a discomforted position. She comfortingly put her hand on Azul's, the Faunus looked at her.

"We touch down, head towards Haven, from Haven? We figure out what Cinder is up to and shut her down. I was thinking of setting up camp between one of the villages and the next for the night." Ruby stated as she took the map of the kingdom out of her backpack.

Azul hummed and Ruby sighed. She knew Azul had ever right to be uncomfortable, he hadn't been around to help his team. Ruby would have lost it if her team was slain in combat without her and would consider herself the failure for being unable to affect the outcome of the battle in a more positive way.

Ruby still considered the fact that they were pursing Cinder to be worth it. Azul would never forgive himself if he didn't make it up to the rest of his team to avenge them in combat.

She also knew she couldn't force Azul to come clean about the details of his inner trauma at the moment. Ruby wanted to help her boyfriend, but pushing him ran the risk of breaking the Faunus emotionally. Ruby decided to push the subject if it continued to grow, doing it now was not a good move and she didn't want to see her boyfriend killed in combat as well.

"We're coming up on one of the villages within 2 hours…" The pilot of the craft pointed out. Ruby nodded.

"Ok, thanks!" Ruby turned to see Azul crack a weak smile and then gaze down at their hands.

Ruby refused to leave Azul's side. He understood the severity of chasing down Cinder. Ruby knew it was selfish to think anyone not instantly pursing Cinder after the wounds of her attack were still freshly planted into the city of Vale.

She also knew Yang would have never followed her and she'd be screeching and breaking everything, she could find if she knew they were gone. Ruby had the decency to at least leave a letter telling her sibling that she was going to the kingdom.

"You know we'd have to knock out Yang if she found out we were already going to Vale, right?" Ruby asked and got a very amused chuckle from her boyfriend.

"Yeah. Yang never gets happy her baby sister tries to act all grown up." Azul swished his tail around before humming in annoyance.

"I still wonder what's going to happen to them, I mean, they can't be happy we left, can they?" Ruby questioned. Azul shrugged and turned to the side.

"I doubt it. you remember when we started that cookie heist and she HAD to blab to Summer that we were taking food early? We were all this and that would be an issue? I still can't believe your mom was so scary back then, you know?" Azul flicked his own ears with joy and then somberly remembered this wasn't like those times at the moment.

He had nothing else to say or think about, nothing could be really said at the moment. Ruby leaned her head on Azul's shoulder as the couple looked out the window at the oceans.

It was peaceful, but it wouldn't last. They had a mission to do and nothing could stop them from that.

It was then they were informed of a problem: Grimm at their landing village.

Author Notes

Phew, another chapter done! I want to point out that with Ruby and Azul? Tyrian is Azul's main enemy and Cinder is Ruby and the main villain for the story. Next chapter will be on next Sunday and will show Azul and Ruby fighting Grimm in the village and reveal Cinder's next plans. Until then, Lighting Wolf out!