The Phantom Of Remnant

Groaning while attempting to cover his ears, Magna winced at the voice that boomed through out the room.

Yesterday, after Winter left, Magna didn"t have the energy to reach his room so he went with the next best thing. He returned to the meeting room and crashed on the couch across from Weiss.

Slowly, Magna managed to stand up while his body ached all over. Suddenly, a high pitched scream echoed from behind him, giving Magna a fright.

Turning towards the source of the scream, Magna"s lips twitched as he saw Weiss, pointing at him with a shaking finger as her cheeks were dyed in a deep blush.

"Y-you..."

Weiss"s voice was shaking as she continued to point at Magna.

With a wry smile on his face, Magna could already guess what set her off. She"s probably angry about the fact that Magna slept in the same room as her.

As if she heard his thoughts, Weiss"s eyes seemed to glow in anger as she harshly screamed, "YOU HEATHEN!!! WHY ARE YOU HERE!?!"

Her voice could be a weapon with how loud she was being. Magna took a couple seconds to allow his ears to stop ringing before saying, "I"m sorry. I was training with your sister last night. When we finished, I was too tired to walk back to my room so I came here and slept on the couch."

Once Magna stopped talking, Weiss abruptly froze before she started to tremble. Magna had no clue what was going on and was about to ask her if she was alright when he heard a soft crying sound come from Weiss.

Before he could even react, Weiss plopped onto the ground and burst into tears. Panic washed over Magna as he started to freak out.

His eyes were spinning inside his head as he fell into confusion.

"Was it something I said? Did I do something wrong?"

These thoughts continued to swirl around inside his mind as he honestly didn"t know why Weiss suddenly burst into tears.

In his confusion, Magna suddenly pulled Weiss into his chest and softly started to pat her head. Weiss struggled, trying her best to break away from him but to no avail.

After a couple minutes, Weiss settled down as she knew it was useless to try and escape. She was no longer crying but her eyes were red and puffy.

Magna was actually stunned as he felt as if his body moved on its own. Never in a thousand years would Magna just up and hug someone like that, especially if they"ve only known each other for a short time.

He could tell from how much she struggled in his embrace that she was extremely uncomfortable being hugged by him.

But now, not only did she stop struggling, she even quietly leaned against his chest.

Magna"s hand softly ran through her hair, earning him a short glare from Weiss but ultimately, she didn"t try to shake off his hand and only softly snorted at him before turning away.

A big and silly grin found its way onto Magna"s face as he said in a sincere tone, "Now that you"ve calmed down, do you want to tell me why you started crying, Princess?"

Weiss glared at Magna with a light blush on her face as she quietly muttered, "…ot fair…"

Her voice was so quiet that Magna doubted she even said anything, so he couldn"t help but ask her to speak up.

As if his words were the spark that ignited a firework, Weiss stood up from Magna"s hug, turned towards him with a fiery glare and screamed, "IT"S NOT FAIR!!! WINTER NEVER TRAINS WITH ME!!! HOW COME YOU GET TO TRAIN WITH HER!?!"

Once again, Magna found himself partially deaf as he thought over Weiss"s words. Turns out she was just jealous of him spending some time with Winter.

Realising this, Magna couldn"t help but find her reaction to be a little bit funny. The more he thought about it, the more uncontrollable the urge to laugh became.

Finally, he reached his limits as he started to giggle before breaking into full out laughter. He didn"t care about anything anymore as he collapsed to the ground and started slapping the floor while he cracked up laughing.

This earned him a mighty glare from Weiss as she lost the blush on her face as her expression started to become… dangerous.

She glared at Magna and coldly said, "You think it"s funny?"

A shiver ran up Magna"s spine as he instantly stopped laughing. He even started to pinch his waist just to stop himself from bursting into laughter.

Sweat dripped down the side of his head as he gave a crooked smile and said, "N-no… I-its not funny at all."
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Weiss"s expression eased up before being replaced by a hollow smile.

"Back at home, no one usually cares about me."

Before he could react, Weiss sat in Magna"s lap as if it were natural. She leaned back into him and entrusted her weight to him as she continued.

"My father pays zero attention to me and only sees me as a business opportunity while my mother just gave birth 2 years ago and has been busy taking care of my little brother ever since."

"Now, no one pays any attention to me. When I try and draw something for them as a present, my dad throws them away without even looking at them. Then he"ll berate me about "upholding the Schnee name." What does that even mean!?! I"m only 7 years only!"

Magna silently watched as this little girl who usually wore the look of a strong young lady broke down in tears as she unleashed all the things she had to silently suffer over her short life.

She didn"t stop as she complained about how her family pressured her to live by their expectations, forcing her to become what they wanted her to be, not who SHE wanted to be. Her feelings flooded Magna"s mind to the brim with all sorts of negative emotions.

He had to control himself from hugging her as he sadly thought to himself, "She"s only a little girl…"

Suddenly, her expression gradually started to lighten as she smiled and said, "Then there"s my older sister, Winter. She…"

Weiss"s face brighten considerable when she started talking about Winter. From how she talked with such emotion and excitement in her voice, Magna couldn"t help but smile as he knew she really loved her sister.

By the time she finished talking, Magna figured it out. When Weiss heard that Magna started training with her, she must have felt threatened because the limited time that she gets to spend with her big sister would become even shorter thanks to Magna.

When she finally finished talking, Magna noticed that she seemed to be in an extremely good mood. Lightly chuckling to himself, Magna roughly messed up her hair as he wore a wide smile and said, "Feeling better now that you got all that off your chest?"

Weiss was slightly startled by how bright his smile seemed to be, as if it could chase away all the bad thoughts inside her. However, she had trouble expressing herself so she just softly snorted at him and said, "No thanks to you!"

Magna only shook his head as he knew she still had trouble with being honest about her feelings while Weiss grabbed the sides of her dressed as she really wanted to say "Thank you" but was too embarra.s.sed to say so.

Slowly, Weiss stood up from Magna"s lap with a light blush on her face. Magna softly chuckled and tried to stand up when the ship suddenly shook.

The voice from the before bellowed across the ship from the as it urgently said, [Brace for impact! We are experiencing an attack from three Nevermores. Weapons will come online soon, until then, brace yourselves.]

The entire ship shook harshly. And Weiss, who was standing up without anything nearby to support herself, tripped and fell to the ground.

"Wah!"

"Watch out!"

Just before she hit the ground, Magna pulled her back into his chest. Unfortunately, because his arms were busy, he fell from the chair and hit the ground hard. However, even though it hurt, Magna made sure that he took the brunt, if not all the damage from the fall onto himself as he used his body to protect Weiss.

Once the ship stabilised, Magna collapsed onto the floor in pain. His muscle were still aching from the training, add on to that the damage he recieved from rolling around the room, protecting Weiss whenever they were about to hit a wall or chair, Magna just wanted to stay on the floor and rest.

But apparently, someone else had other plans. Weiss"s hands were touching all over his body as tears fell from her eyes.

With shaking hands, Weiss softly wiped the dust and dirt from Magna"s face as she softly asked, "…Why did you protect me?"

A wide smile naturally appeared on Magna"s face as he lightly said, "Do you need a reason to protect your friends?"

His answer stunned Weiss.

"Friends? Who? Me and him?"

A small part of her wanted to glare at him and arrogantly scream, "Friends? Don"t get to full of yourself, commoner!"

But the rested of her dwarfed the small part of herself as Weiss lay his head on her lap, softly smiled and said, "I guess you don"t need a reason..."

While these two were off in their own little world, they were completely oblivious to the smirking faces watching on from behind the door.