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Author's Note: COULD IT BE I'VE FINALLY FINISHED THIS FANFIC? YAAAAY! I really wanted to finish it yesterday before the new RWBY episode but things kept getting in the way so I finished it today.

I want to thank everyone who has read this story, left a review or took the time to favourite and put it in their alerts. It means a lot that you all liked reading it.

I hope you all enjoy this final chapter.

Reeves3.

Chapter 10

The Wonderful Thing About Tigger

Deep within the Emerald Forest, waiting patiently in a thicket of greenery, was Yang Xiao Long. The trees creaked with each gust of wind causing her to look over in that direction in case a Grimm decided to make an appearance instead. She let out a sigh and pulled out her scroll from her pocket to check the time.

'They have ten minutes left,' she mused. As she was about to put her scroll away it suddenly started to ring. Glancing at the screen she saw it was Blake video calling her. Smiling widely she swiped a finger across the screen to answer it.

Instead of Blake's face appearing however a young boy, the age of five, with bright yellow eyes like the sun which matched his messy hair where two lion ears rested on top. He gave a toothy grin and a wave when he saw Yang had answered.

"Hi mummy!" He cheered.

Yang beamed. "Hello Drake, sweetie, what are you doing?"

"I wanted to call you. I miss you mummy," replied Drake.

"I miss you too but I'll be home tomorrow to give you a giant hug and lots of kisses," promised Yang. She had been away on an assignment for the past three days clearing out nests of Nevermore's in the forest with Ruby.

Drake nodded his head. "Okay. What are you doing now?" He asked, curiously.

"Well I'm doing a favour for Professor Ozpin now. He needs Hunters and Huntresses to do an overnight survival task with his third year students so I'm waiting for them to arrive," explained Yang.

"Oh," said Drake, understanding. "Where are they?"

Yang smiled. "Finding their way to me I presume - it's a part of their task."

"That's silly," decided Drake. "The-they should meet you at-"

Wherever he was about to suggest was cut off with the sound of a door opening and closing somewhere on Drake's side off-screen on the phone.

"Drake, who are you talking t-," a young girls voice, called out. Yang watched as Drake's eyes went wide as saucers when her seven year old daughter, Yin, let out a gasp. "Why do you have mom's scroll? Mom is looking for it!"

Raising an eyebrow Yang stared sternly at her son. "Drake, did you take mommy's scroll without her knowing?"

"No," lied Drake, looking down at his feet. Yin darted over and came into the camera view. Her wavy black hair cascaded down her back and her violet eyes, that occasionally turned red when she became irritated, lit with glee at the sight of her mother.

"Yes he did. Mom's just asked me if I've seen it. Also hi mum, " said Yin, with a wave that Yang returned.

"But I wanted to call mummy," mumbled Drake, crestfallen.

Yang felt her heart pang at her son's little acknowledgment knowing that both of her children missed her and Blake whenever they went out on missions. Just as she remembered missing Summer when she went out on her own adventures.

"It's okay my little cub but you do need to ask your mom first when you use her scroll to call me. Yin, go let mom know where her scroll is so she can stop searching."

Yin nodded her head before running off out the room shouting for Blake and Drake looked up worried at Yang.

"Am I in trouble?" He asked, nervous.

"No, you're not, but just remember you have to wait for me to ring you when I'm away," reminded Yang.

Drake nodded his head as the door opened in the room once more and this time Blake entered in with Yin. He smiled sheepishly, a smile identical to Yang's, up at his mother and rubbed the back of his neck as his ears twitched.

"Sorry mom," he spoke, handing the scroll to her.

"Don't take it without permission next time, all right?" Blake cautioned, in a firm yet kind tone.

Drake nodded his head and Blake brushed a hand through his hair. The camera moved and the screen became a blur for Yang until it stilled in front of her wife.

"Hello you," murmured Blake, affectionately.

A wave of comfort and longing washed over Yang as she looked at Blake through the screen. Judging by the look Blake was giving her she realised that her raven haired love was feeling the same way.

"Hey kitten," replied Yang, flashing her a dazzling smile before asking. "Do you know if Rubes made it back home all right?"

"Yes she did," answered Blake, happily. "Weiss called to let me know she had got back safe and sound."

"Great!" Yang exclaimed. Then she frowned and added. "I don't even what to think about what those two are doing now."

Blake gave her a devious smirk. "Probably the same stuff we'll be doing when you return tomorrow."

Yang grinned and gave Blake a wink. "That and a lot more."

"What stuff?" Yin asked, inquisitively, from somewhere below off the screen.

Yang and Blake's eyes widened having momentarily forgotten their children were in the room.

"Giving you and Drake a butt load of cuddles!"

Drake and Yin giggled at Yang's choice of words. Blake moved to sit down on the edge of Drake's bed and he and Yin climbed into her lap and leaned back against their mother. Yang smiled at the sight as it warmed her heart. She couldn't wait to get home and be with them all again.

Her daydreams were interrupted when a twig snapped on the ground somewhere in the trees to her left. Yang zoomed her eyes off the screen in the general direction and saw a pair of red eyes watching her through the bushes. Quickly picking up that some kind of Grimm was near Yang by the blonde's sudden change of brightly and bubbly attitude to dark and serious.

"I got to go," mentioned Yang, keeping her eyes fixed on the bushes. "It looks like the party has started early."

"Be careful," worried Blake.

The beasts eyes disappeared and Yang flashed a smile at Blake while activating her gauntlets. "Always am," she reassured.

There was a chorus of 'I love you's' from them all which Yang returned before putting away her scroll. The device was only in her pocket for a short while when three Ursa Major's jumped out from the bushes out in front of her.

Yang cocked Ember Celica and fired a round at the one in the centre and it roared in pain as the shot hit it square in the face. Beside it the flanking bear like Grimm growled and charged forwards at Yang bounding across the grass in big leaps. Firing a few more shots before they were close enough to swipe at her Yang fired a shot behind her and whooshed forward. She hit the belly of one of the Ursa's knocking it back with the power of her two fists. The third carried on running but quickly skidded to a halt upon realising its target had slipped by. Yang barely had time to take a breath when the first Ursa she hit in the face leapt over the one she had knocked to the floor with its long white claws extended out to pierce her.

Rolling out the way but in the way of the third Grimm running towards her Yang embraced the hit and let herself be knocked back. Feeling the energy coursing through her body flames began to flicker around her. She turned on her heal and let loose a fury of swipes at the third Ursa Major that had struck her until she punched through its lower jaw and ripped it off. Yang fired a killing shot through the roof of its mouth.

Back on its feet the second Grimm had joined the first as the third's body disappeared into nothingness. Howling at the loss of one of their kind the Ursa Major's snarled and snapped their teeth. Yang grinned, ready to go again, when an all new sound joined the fray.

Out of the bushes from behind Yang came a team of four Faunus hunters and huntresses with a battle cry. Realising her assigned students from Beacon had showed up Yang grinned at them and eyed each of them in turn as they got closer until they fell upon a familiar sunset orange pair.

"Tigger?" She exclaimed, hardly believing what she was seeing.

She felt the ground shake close by and Yang shook herself quickly out of her shock to blast herself out of the way of the charging Grimm. The young man with tiger ears jumped towards her, the underside of his boots lined with springs, and gave the order for his teammates to face the Ursa Major's. The twenty year old, standing at six foot tall, pulled Yang further away from the fight to speak and gave her a soft smile.

"The one and only," he revealed.

Yang could feel her mouth was open but she didn't care as she started to smile and shake her head as she blathered out. "This is unbelievable! How? How do you know about me? How did you know I would be here?"

Tigger let out a chuckle and ran a hand through his short spiky hair. "How about I answer those questions after we help take out these Grimm?"

Nodding her head Yang ran out towards the Grimm and blasted at one, singling it out from the other, while Tigger's team worked together to take it out. Tigger joined Yang in her fight against the Grimm and the pair made quick work killing it with Yang's gauntlets and Tigger's custom Bagh Naka's which sliced easily through the Grimm like butter. When they were done Tigger joined his team taking down the remaining Ursa as Yang observed from the side.

Her head was reeling from Tigger suddenly making an appearance. She couldn't believe he was actually here especially after believing she wouldn't see him again when she said goodbye all those years ago.

A final roar from the Ursa Major and it vanished in a cloud of smoke as Tigger's team put away their weapons. Yang strolled over to them and Tigger met her in the middle of the clearing while his three teammates hung back. The moment they were close enough Tigger bent down a bit and wrapped his arms around Yang giving her a hug. Her eyes stung from welling tears but Yang refused to let them fall as she snaked her own arms around Tigger.

"Thank you for saving my life," murmured Tigger, happy to be holding his first adoptive mother.

Yang sniffed. "I can't believe it's you."

"Hey Tigs! What's going on?" The second male team member, with a kangaroo tail, shouted. There was an 'oof' as Yang and Tigger separated from their hug to see a third male and one female member standing either side of the faunus giving him a good elbow to the side.

Tigger let out a breathy laugh. "Sorry guys. Let me introduce you to each other, this is Yang Xiao Long and Yang this is my team, Roo, Buck, Lottie and together we make Team TRBL."

Yang grinned at the team name. "It's nice to meet you all."

"It's an honour to be working with you Huntress Xiao Long," replied Lottie, her otter ears small and round atop of her head.

"No need for formalities, just Yang will do," the blonde reassured, with a smile.

"So how do you two know each other?" Buck asked, his rabbit ears peaked with curiosity.

"I'm getting to that," replied Tigger, impatiently. "Remember I told you all the story of how I was abandoned as a baby?" He waited for his teammates to nod their heads before continuing. He wrapped an arm around Yang's shoulders and gave her a small side hug. "Well this is the woman who found me before I was adopted by my parents."

A chorus of 'oooooh's' went up in the air by the three team members and Roo rocked back on his tail with a grin.

"So that's why you wanted to pick this mission!" He cried out.

Tigger rubbed the back of his neck. "Heh, yeah."

"You knew I would be here?" Yang asked, staring inquisitively up at Tigger.

"Yeah," admitted Tigger. "Ozpin kind of hinted at it and I was adamant we pick it. I really wanted to meet you, properly as I don't remember you as a baby. My parents and my uncle told me all about you though and you're team. It's what inspired me to be a Hunter myself."

Yang couldn't be any more happier. "I am so pleased to hear that and I'm so proud of you too! Look at you! All grown up and a Hunter in training. Oh I need to ring Blake and tell her this! After this mission and the next weekend you have free, bring your team along too if you want, you're coming to have dinner at our place!"

Tigger let out a laugh. "Of course, so long as we're not intruding."

"Hardly," mentioned Yang. "After all, you're family."

Author's Note: Yin and Drake belong to the wonderful weissrabbit over on tumblr. Go see her blog if you haven't already because she's a super person who does some amazing art work.

Roo, Buck and Lottie are character names from Winnie The Pooh. I thought it was fitting for Tigger to have team members with names from that franchise for obvious reasons, haha.

Well that's it. Thank you once more and don't forget to leave a review!

Reeves3.