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It’s the Fourth Chapter guys, enjoy!

‘Chapter 4: Surfacing Regrets • A leaf falls to the ground, a clock ticks, a tap leaks, and Tai faces Raven on the other side of his table with an annoyed look on his face, while Raven has an exasperated look on her face. “Do you remember the day we became a team?” Tai asks her. Raven just stared back at Tai.

Cut to Emerald Forest, as Tai continues in a voiceover “it wasn’t at the Team Ceremony,[a teenage Tai and Qrow are fighting a Beringel Grimm]it was in the Emerald Forest...[a teenage Raven comes in slashing the Beringel up, before it backhands her into the teenage Qrow and Tai]when it was me, Qrow, you and- [the Beringel raises it’s two fists getting ready to swing them down down at the floored teenage Qrow, Tai and Qrow]-Summer.”

[just as Tai’s voiceover says ‘Summer’, a White and Red rose trail slams into the Beringel knocking it a few feet back, as a young teenage female lands dressed in some sort of black huntress Outfit with a white hooded-cloak, the camera pans up from the teenage girl’s weapon to her face, revealing: a teenage Summer Rose!

Summer’s Theme starts playing, as she smirks and goes in to finish the Beringel Grimm, fighting alone in a stylish combination of acrobatics and strikes, Summer finishes off the Beringel, killing it. She then turns to the others and says “now then- grinning now and shutting her eyes -why don’t we ace this thing!”

Back in the present- “Tai” Raven speaks up “why’re you telling me stuff I already know?” “You know” began Tai “during Summer’s funeral, there was one thing I noticed... you weren’t there.” “Not even in your bird form.”

“I...” Raven began just as Tai cut her off “you know I always was curious why you didn’t show, I mean, back in the day you and Summer were inseparable, but...” Tai sighed before saying “I just don’t care anymore”

Raven has a taken aback look on her face “or at least I’ve wasted so much energy on you that I’ve stopped caring” Raven’s face changes to confusion as Tai gets up and continues “you can stay until you’ve healed, then get out of my house” Tai walks off leaving Raven sitting there with her confused look changing to a look of saddened realisation.

Back in Atlas- Yang is wandering around with a troubled look on her face when she hears someone ask her “you look like something’s troubling you” it’s Maria sitting on a Bench.

“Yeah” Yang answers “I’m just... not sure what to do” “well whatever’s troubling you, I’m sure you’ll figure it out... well, from I’ve seen, that’s how your sister would see it at least.” “Yeah... I don’t want to trouble her with this just yet, she’s still mostly a little kid on the inside” Yang replied. “Is she now?” Maria replied in a calm and intrigued tone.

“Well yeah, I mean... she’s definitely matured, but...” Yang replied quickly as if she was trying to convince someone, while sitting down on the bench next to Maria. “But?” Maria replied in a calm and knowing tone.

“But...” Yang began, then gritted her teeth, then firmly said “look, when we were kids, I was the one who comforted Ruby when our mom died, but...” Yang started to have tears gently trickle down her face and said out loud through gritted teeth “but I wasn’t there for her when Penny died! I wasn’t there for her when Pyrrha died! I wasn’t there when she needed me! And when I did come to console her... I-I-I did it out of guilt and fear of losing her!” Yang has her hands on face now and lays on her lap.

“I did it for my own selfish reasons! And if it was me... I can guarantee she wouldn’t think twice about consoling me, just because she wants to be there for me!” “Well, that’s one way of looking at it, I guess” Maria replies calmly with a smile on her face.

“Huh?” Replies Yang looking up from her lap, her eyes red with tears. “Well from what I’ve seen, although not much, clearly shows Ruby as a young woman who’s not only capable, but able to step up when the situation demands her too..” “Definitely a different person to who you’re describing.”

“But...” Began Yang, but is cut off by Maria. “Young lady, you’re going to have to stop viewing your sister as the little girl she was, and start seeing that she’s grown a lot since you two were children... cause right now your projecting this image of yours onto her, and start trusting her enough that you can get that secret of yours off your chest.”

“What! How do you...” Began Yang worriedly before Maria cut her off again. “Oh please, I wasn’t born yesterday, it’s pretty obvious that whatever your hiding is something that’s really important to you.” Yang let out a small smile.

“Now then” Maria begins as she gets up “I best find that ‘Arc’ boy, I’ll see you later sweetie.” “Hey, Calavera” Yang calls out. “Yes” Maria replies walking off. “Thanks” Yang replies in a much happier tone, while wiping her eyes clean. “Anytime dearie, anytime” Maria replied.

Vale- A high ranking Officer is doing paperwork when a female Soldier bursts in “Sir” he yells “the messenger has arrived from the far-North East outpost!” “What’s the report then?” Replied the Officer, still looking through the paperwork on his desk.

“It’s bad sir, the report claimed that the Grimm that had left Beacon Academy had all gathered on the North East coast, and joined with what looked like every Grimm in the entire Kingdom sir!” “What?!” Replied the Officer suddenly getting up and slamming his hands down onto his desk.

The Officer looked down at the paperwork on his desk, he had a concerned look on his face, and said through gritted teeth “what type of Grimm are we dealing with?” “Sir, at first it was just a few dozen of Beowolves, Boarbatusks, Creeps, Beringels, Goliaths,Death Stalkers and Nevermores, along with a Wyvern that looked to have some stone falling off of it...” “But then?” spoke the Officer.

“But then, Sir” began the female Soldier “hundreds, maybe thousands of Leviathans showed up with every type of Grimm we are aware of, riding on their backs with two of them free for the Grimm on the coast to climb onto their backs, Sir!”

The Officer just stared down at his paperwork, before saying in a fearful tone: Switch to the Grimm army crossing the Ocean- “May the Gods have mercy on every last one of our souls.” Pan back to see the colossal army of Grimm! Quickly switch to black. Episode End.‘

Here’s something you may be interested to know, originally this Chapter was called ‘Chapter.4: STRQ’ but I decided the newly revised title would fit better with the theme of this Chapter being the ‘Surfacing Regrets’ of both Yang and Raven, it’ll be a bit more obvious later for Raven, don’t worry though I’m not gonna go so far to redeem Raven after all that she’s done, I’ve got her more of a ‘Atonement Character Arc’ as it’s more suiting for where her Character is at present.

Also, I originally had Ruby getting some spotlight, but decided that’d be best for Chapter 5, where there’s more time to flesh out her thoughts on the matter of her ‘naivety’.

Any thoughts or suggestions... just let me know.