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Yang was walking in the courtyard in front of Beacon Academy, steadily approaching the Hunter statue that stood there. She recognized the place, she'd passed by it on more than one occasion since coming the the school, yet now it seemed different; nothing had drastically changed, everything was still in the same places it had always been, but...something about the scene was just "off", and she could put her finger on it. Maybe the colors were off or something…?

For that matter, how did she even get her in the first place? That last thing she remembered was...was…

OK, why couldn't she remember how she got here?

She would have pondered the conundrum further, only something next to the statue caught her attention.

Or more specifically, someone.

"Who are you?" she asked, taking the appearance of the newcomer in; it was a woman, obviously, around her father's age if she had to guess. She wore a maroon outfit that strongly resembled the nightgown Blake liked to wear, only this one had a black sash similar to her own on the right side of the hem like her own. She also wore a Grimm mask that covered her entire face, much larger than the masks the White Fang tended to use. (Was she somehow connected to the White Fang?...) a long man of black hair trailed out of the back of the mask, though Yang couldn't tell if it actually belonged to the woman or not.

However, she didn't have to wonder about that for very long, as the mysterious woman reached up and pulled her mask off, revealing-

She felt her eyes turn red, even though she was sure she hadn't activated her Semblance yet. She didn't even know how she knew that, she just did.

Then the woman spoke.

"Yang, we have a lot to talk about."

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AN: So the story behind this one is that I had an idea for a fic after reading another one and thinking I could do a better job (often how I get my RWBY fic ideas). For me, that means less shipping (outside of what's already been established in canon) and more story. I was originally going to wait until November to get started on it and make it my project for NaNoWriMo; this would give me a chance to work out where the story would go and get the details of the gimmick down and finalized. (Needless to say, it went through several iterations and it still isn't fully nailed down.) It was supposed to to be a placeholder Vol. 3 in lieu of Rooster Teeth actually starting production on it themselves.

Then I was looking of Facebook one and saw that they were starting production of Vol. 3, and that the video game was still going to happen.

Needless to say, I squeed.

So now I've got to get as much of the story out before Vol. 3 happens later this year to avoid my mused getting contaminated with new character growth and trivia, and to do so I'm putting all my other stories on hiatus until I get this one finished. Rest assured I will return to them ("Dif'rent Faces" and "What's your favorite Anime?" for RWBY and "Winter Queen" for Bleach currently) upon completion of "Sins" or if I get a sizable portion written. Hopefully I'll get this one finished before the first episode of Vol. 3 gets posted, because I'd rather like to watch the show as it comes out.

Anyway, feedback is appreciated and constructive criticism is welcome. Plot will come before shipping, of course, though I may play around with two specific characters if I can come up with a good enough idea. I will also be posting new chapters as the story is written, though how frequently this will happen I can't say since I'll probably be going back and reediting a lot, so temper your expectations accordingly.

And that's about all for now. Future post script author's notes will most likely be shorter than this one, though that depends on what I end up talking about. (I.E. production troubles, reviews, my personal reasoning, ect.) See you next chapter!