AN: Okay so I imagine a lot of you are wondering why I made a prolog, well the answer to that is simple in my story it takes a few chapters to get to the RWBY elements of the story so My friend suggested to make a prolog and Do it on the RWBY P.O.V I will leave it up to you if it works or not, Quick warning there may be extremely gruesome sense in this chapter if your squeamish I apologies also character death, and also Romance is a bit difficult to write I hope I did alright.
Disclaimer: I only own my Oc's, Star Wars belongs to Disney, and RWBY belongs to Monty Oum (RIP) and Rooster teeth.
(Prolog)
"Mommy, where are you and Daddy going?" a three year old girl asked her mother as she was getting ready for an outing.
The woman in question turned to face her young daughter their silver eyes meeting as she answered, "Daddy and I are going out for a while Ruby, don't worry uncle Qrow will be here to watch out for you." she assured the girl.
"When will you be back?" Ruby asked cutely.
Summer Rose smiled and pulled Ruby into a hug "In a few hours, I want you to be on your best behavior with uncle Qrow okay?"
"Okay." she said happily
A knock sounded at the door and she moved to answer it and there stood her fellow teammate and friend Qrow Branwen "Qrow thank you so much for babysitting Yang and Ruby." Summer said gratefully
The veteran huntsman just waved it off "Think nothing of it, It's always a pleasure to watch my nieces."
"Unca Qroooow!" Ruby squealed and ran up to him, he got down to her level and brought her into a hug.
"Hey squirt, where's your sister?" he asked as he pulled away from the embrace.
"I don't know." Ruby said.
"Let's go find her, okay?" he asked in a tone that suggested that he was suggesting they make a game out of it
"Yippee!" she said and took off running looking for her sister.
"I'll be with you in a moment." he called after her though he doubt she heard him by then, he turned back to Summer "So did Tai say where he was taking you two?" Qrow asked.
Summer smiled and shook her head "No he said he wanted it to be a surprise." she told him.
Qrow just smiled in return "It's your fifth anniversary it's going to be good."
"It's Tai of course it's going to be good, no it's going to be great." she said warmly.
"Found You!" they heard Ruby scream in delight across the house drawing amused chuckles from the adults
A few seconds later Ruby came running back to the greeting area with a another girl, she had long blond hair which grew so long because the five year old refused to cut it and lilac eyes that seemed to light up when she saw Qrow "Uncle Qrow!" she exclaimed and leaped at him knocking the wind out of him and catching him in a hug.
"Hey." he said as he ruffled both his niece's heads affectionately.
"Qrow it's good to see you again." a man's voice exclaimed Qrow turned to see a man with blonde hair and blue eyes wearing his same old clothing matching Summer's choice of clothes her typical white cloak and combat clothes, this was Taiyang Xiao Long.
"Likewise Tai." Qrow said with a grin.
"I want you girls on your best behaviour." he told the girls as he walked over
"Okay Daddy." Ruby said
"Yes Dad." Yang said respectfully.
Tai pulled them into a hug "I love you both we'll be back soon." he said as he pulled away and Summer took his place and hugged the two girls, after wards they left to go celebrate their fifth anniversary.
Tai and Summer caught a ferry to the mainland and walked into the city of Vale "Okay Tai where are you taking us?" she asked.
"I told you it's a surprise." he answered with a smile.
They walked until they came to the Vale weapons museum "Really Tai a whole evening of you me and Weapons?" Summer asked.
"This is the first thing on tonight's list of events." he answered as they walked into the museum and looked at all the weapons of the old heros who fought the grimm, as well as old schematics for other types of weapons, she was studying a weapon that belonged to according to legend anyway one of the first warriors to fight the grimm the great Oum the same one who discovered dust at least according to legend.
After some time in the museum they left and continued walking along the streets they were coming up on a corner and summer accidently bumped into a man coming around the corner which knocked all the things he was carrying to the ground "I'm terribly sorry about that." she apologised as she helped the stranger pick up the papers he dropped.
"Oh it's okay." the man said as he waved off the apology "Thank you very much miss…" he stopped
"My name's Summer, and this is my husband TaiYang we're celebrating our anniversary."
"A pleasure to meet you both." he said and shook their hands then he noticed Summer's silver eyes, his own eyes narrowed just a fraction so slight that unless someone was actively looking for it it would have gone unnoticed "My name is Yncѐ" he said pleasantly.
"It's nice to meet you Yncѐ." Tai said kindly, he had a weird feeling about this man something felt off and unnatural about him, he looked at his wife to see if she might be feeling the same thing, if she was she was hiding it very well.
"Well Yncѐ, we would love to stay and talk more but My husband and I have a whole evening ahead planned, I'm terribly sorry about this." Summer said apologetically.
Yncѐ smiled in understanding "I understand and congratulations." he said warmly, as the couple left, as soon as they did his violet eyes seemed to transform into a blood red color and a thoughtful frown adorned his face he looked around to make sure no one was looking at him before he pulled out a small device and activated it "This is Shadow Bringer."
"What is it?" the voice on the other end demanded.
"I fear I may have found a silver eyed warrior." he reported.
"... You're certain of this?" the voice asked after a moment of silence.
Shadow Bringer turned his head to look at the couple "Yes."
"Follow them and report their movements." the voice ordered him.
"As you command." Shadow Bringer said, put his communicator away, and suddenly disappeared from sight leaving no trace that he was there.
"Tai, did that man seem off to you?" Summer asked her husband as they walked through the streets.
"A little, something about him seemed... Sinister I guess." he said after looking for the right words and looked back in the direction that they came from.
"It was probably nothing." She said but deep down she had a hard time believing that.
"Maybe…" Tai agreed somewhat uncertainly, before he shook his head "But never mind about that tonight's all about us we can worry about that later." he stated.
Summer smiled and nodded "Yeah so where to next?" she asked curiously, he smiled and held his hand out to her, she took it with a smile and they continued to walk through the brightly lit streets unaware of the uninvited guest who invited himself.
After a few minutes of walking they came to the front of the Wolf's Den, "Tai this place is Expensive, how did you afford to pay for this?"
"I called in a favor." Tai answered honestly, "this is Oz's anniversary present to us." he told her.
"He didn't need to go through all that trouble." Summer said surprised.
"He insisted." Tai told her.
Summer shook her head a little in disbelief "Well why not?" she asked with a smile "Let's go." she exclaimed.
Tai smiled and the couple walked into the restaurant "Party of two Taiyang and Summer." Tai told the Doorman as they walked in the man looked down and nodded to himself.
"Yep here you are." he confirmed and grabbed two menus "Follow me." he beckoned, and led them to a booth at the far end of the restaurant, "Your waiter will be right with you." he told them as the couple sat in their seats and he placed the menus down on the table "I hope you have a pleasant time, and enjoy your meal." He told them warmly.
"Thank you." Tai and Summer said in unison, as the Doorman walked back to the door.
The two hunters browsed through the menu and already decided on the drinks they wanted when the Waiter came up to them "Hello and welcome to the Wolf's Den, my name is Zelen and I will be your waiter."
"Nice to meet you Zelen." Summer said genuinely, and Tai nodded.
"Well what can I get you to drink?" Zelen asked
"Just some water will be fine for me." Tai said
"I'll have strawberry milk." Summer said.
"Alright Water for you and Strawberry milk for you." Zelen said to himself as he wrote down the order on the pad, "Okay anything else before I go?" Zelen asked .
The couple looked at each other and shook their heads "Still undecided on what we want to eat."
"No problem, I'll be right back." he told them and left to go get their drinks.
The couple looked through the menu to find something to eat, by the time Zelen came back with their drinks they had already decided on what they were going to have "here's the water for you." he said as he handed the Water to Tai, "And the strawberry milk for you." and handed the drink to Summer.
"Thank you very much Zelen." Tai said gratefully.
"You're very welcome, so have you decided on what you're going to have?" Zelen asked his note pad at the ready.
"Yes we have," Summer started, "I'll have the Salad please no dressing, and unbreaded chicken, please." she said Zelen noded as he wrote down the order on the note pad.
"Salad no dressing, and unbreaded chicken?" he asked to make sure.
"Yep." she confirmed.
"And you sir?" Zelen asked
"I'll have an omelet, with cheese, please." Tai said, Zelen had left the two as he sent the order to the kitchen.
When they were alone Summer started a conversation "Five years already?"
"I know it doesn't seem possible, It seemed just like yesterday we were put on a team together with Qrow and... Raven." he said that last name with a bit of a hurt tone before he shook it off.
Summer knew of the past history between Tai and Raven and that Tai sometimes missed her but she didn't hold it against him for doing so, in reality she was a little angry at Raven for doing what she did she didn't offer any explanation she just up'd and left leaving her just born child Yang and Tai alone, she shook her head of these thoughts today was a celebration of her and Tai's 5 years of matrimony a time to remember the happy memories not the butter ones, before she could speak Zelen came back with a wine bottle in hand "The gentle men over their wishes to offer his congratulations." the group looked over and saw a familiar face looking at them with a smile, he had silver hair, wore glasses and had a cane next to him, when they saw who it was they smiled back and turned to the Waiter "Tell him thank you, but we already have drinks." Summer said.
"The man insisted." Zelen said.
"Leave the bottle than." Tai said, "And tell Ozpin thank you for us."
"Of course."
"Ozpin seems to be playing chaperone again." Summer said humorously.
"Let him." Tai retorted.
"He's coming over here." Summer said, indeed the new headmaster of beacon was coming over to their table.
"Summer, Taiyang, it's good to see you again." Ozpin greeted when he arrived at the table "and you're welcome."
"It's good to see you as well Oz." Tai returned.
"It is indeed."
"How are Yang and Ruby?" Oz asked.
"They're great, Qrow is watching them." Summer answered.
Oz chuckled "Oh Qrow, how is he doing?"
"He's fine as well."
"That's good."
"This isn't a social visit is it?" Tai asked.
Ozpin sighed "I'm afraid not, the council wants to send one of you to go on a mission as soon as you can."
"Oz." Tai said frustrated.
"I'm sorry I wouldn't be telling you this unless it was absolutely necessary."
"What's the matter Oz?" Summer asked worried.
"The council have reasons to believes they found a White Grimm in the badlands moving to one of the settlements outside the kingdom's boundaries." At the mention of a White Grimm the couple immediately lost all coloration in their faces, those things were far more dangerous than the average Grimm with only the extremely old Grimm matching them in terms of danger levels it took an extremely high caliber huntsman or huntress to take them down, fortunately high caliber huntsman was Tai and Summer.
"I'll take it." Summer volunteered.
"You sure?" Oz asked.
"Yes sir." Summer said full of determination.
"Summer..." Tai started.
"I'll be fine Tai." she said "we can finish our anniversary when I get back." she told him.
"I am terribly sorry I didn't mean to make you cancel your plans." Ozpin apologised.
"It's okay sir, those settlers lives are important, I will help them." Summer assured Ozpin.
"I don't doubt it." Ozpin said 'I just hope you come home alive.' he thought to himself
Zelen came back to the table with the food "And here is your meal." he said.
"Zelen can you put that in a bag please?" Tai asked the waiter.
"Of course sir." Zelen said realizing that the couple might be leaving early and moved to go get two containers and a bag.
"I must be going, I'll be there to see you off on the Bullhead." Ozpin said
"I'll see you there." Summer said, as he left.
"I don't like this." Tai said.
"I don't like it either." she told him "but I have to save those settlers you know me Tai, when someone is in danger I have to help them."
"I know." Tai told her "But it's a White Grimm."
"It could be a Goliath for all I care, I'd still fight it." Summer told him.
"I don't doubt it, perhaps if I came with you…" he started.
"Tai someone needs to watch over Yang and Ruby." she interrupted him.
"You say that like you aren't coming back." Tai said.
"Tai I don't know what exactly to expect, White Grimm are a very rare occurrence and I just want to be ready in the event that…"
"You will come home, don't doubt your abilities now, you trained for this you can kill this thing is, I know you can." Tai told her and placed a hand on hers.
"You're right." Summer said confidently.
Zelen came up with the bag in hand "Here's your meals." Tai took the bag and then reached into his pocket and pulled out some lien cards and gave it to the waiter "Thank you sir." Zelen said gratefully upon receiving 50 lien.
After they left the restaurant Tai and Summer walked together to the helipad where the Bullheads waited to deploy the hunters, when they reached it Summer pulled out her scroll and typed in her code a few moments later a locker came flying in and Summer walked up to it, opened it and pulled out her weapon, she walked back to Tai, "I'll see you in a few Days."
"Hopefully sooner." Tai responded, then he pulled her into a hug, "Stay safe beloved." and kissed her which she returned.
Summer pulled away "I love you, and give my love to Yang and Ruby." she told him as she boarded the Bullhead.
"I love you too, and I will." Tai shouted.
Meanwhile, Shadow bringer had been following the couple ever since they bumped into him and place a tracking device on the bull head before it took off, "Umbra, it's Shadow bringer." he said into the communicator.
"What is it Shadow Bringer?" the voice now identified as Umbra demanded.
"The silver eyed warrior is going on a mission in the Danger Zone." Shadow bringer reported "I placed a tracking device on her aircraft."
"Good work Shadow Bringer." Umbra said "what do you make of her will she join us?" Umbra asked.
"I don't think so, she's going on a mission to kill the purest life form." Shadow Bringer growled.
"A pity, we'll do what must be done." Umbra said ominously.
After landing in the settlement Summer walked out of the bullhead and over to the Inn, the Pilot walking just behind her, she walked up to the Innkeeper "hello sir I would like to rent two rooms for tonight, one for me and the other for my my pilot here."
The innkeeper smiled and nodded "Of course a huntress is always welcome here, please take a room free of charge." he said
"Are you sure sir?" Summer asked uncertainly.
"I insist." the innkeeper said.
"If you're sure." Summer told him not really liking the idea of free stuff.
"Think about it this way you are paying me by doing your duty as a huntress as such I will not take your money." the Innkeeper told her
"Alright." Summer said uneasily and went to her room the pilot went to his room as well.
The next day Summer grabbed her gear and left the safety of the settlement behind to hunt her quarry.
Summer moved through the beautiful woods as a mountain lion does on a hunt she used the trees and high ground to get a better look of the area, her instinct from all her years and experience as a huntress serving her well, after several hours of looking and not finding any sign of the grimm Summer decided to get a drink at the stream she found.
She scooped up some water in her hand and began to drink while maintaining awareness of her surroundings, after taking a drink she looked down at one of the pools in the stream it was still enough so she could see her reflection she looked at the reflection for a moment then she saw something else in it, her eyes widened and she rolled to the side in the nick of time as a growling animal charged her and missed going right into the stream, she grabbed her weapon and held it in a defencive stance, as the creature stopped and turned to face her snarling all the while, 'I finally found you.' Summer thought to herself, as she and the white beowulf stared each other down her silver eyes meeting its demonic red ones.
After several tense seconds the Beowulf made the first move, it picked up a stone from the stream, threw it at the huntress, and charged, Summer dodged the stone and struck with her weapon the blow landed on the demon's armored head and caused it to stagger a little, Summer took advantage of the blunder on her enemies part and moved to follow up but the Grimm proved to be smarter than she originally thought, it dodged the blow and countered with it's claws successfully scratching her arm, Summer quickly moved away and cursed herself, 'It faked being hurt that clever devil' she thought to herself with that in mind she used her weapon's gun form to shoot the creature from a distance, the first three shots hit the creature in the arms two in the right the last on the left which made the creature howl in pain and retaliate by throwing more stones, Summer then shot the creature in the eye causing it to go blind it brought its hand up to cover its face and it road in pain capitalizing on this she rushed the creature and stabbed its remaining eye with a knife the creature threw her off and started to flail wildly to try and kill the huntress, it never came close, Summer used the grimm's blindness to her advantage and started to beat the creature into submission, after several minutes the grimm grabbed her weapon and started to fight back having adapted to its blindness, she kicked it with such force that it let the weapon go and tumbled backwards, and tripped over some stones Summer looked past the Grimm and saw that they were near a cliff side, so she continued to push the Grimm in that direction, the creature fought back and the two exchanged blows with such ferocity that to an outside observer it would look like two professional athletes fighting for the title of champion.
After several minutes Summer gained the upper hand by breaking the creature's arm with a crack, the Grimm Howled so loudly that if Summer hadn't been high on adrenaline, she would of have to cover her ears, the grimm charged in the direction of the Huntress, Summer taking advantage leaped over the creature and grabbed onto its back using her weapon to grab it's throat she pulled on it so violently that the grimms neck broke and it fell to the ground unable to move, she than stabbed the creature and threw it off the cliff for good measure.
Summer was breathing heavy, she felt a little tired but she felt exhilarated as well, she looked at her scroll to check her aura level, it was in the yellow a little over the halfway point, "A job well done." she said to herself with a smile and started to contact Ozpin to tell him the good news, she turned around and looked up… as soon as she did she saw four individuals all wearing dark cloaks of some kind, each of them wore a horrific mask that reminded her of the grimm, two of the individuals had red eyes, one of them had yellow sickly eyes and the last one frightened her the most his eyes were blacker than midnight and all of them were boring right into her.
"Can I help you?" Summer asked nervously, while subtly pressing the send button and hoping Ozpin would listen in.
"You Killed that creature, Why?" the man with black eyes asked his voice was so soft and almost whisper like, it sent a chill up her spine.
"It's My job to kill these abominations." Summer retorted refusing to let the groups chilling presence get to her "It threatened a settlement near here." she continued.
"You heretic!" one of the red eyed men shouted she thought she recognised that voice but from where she couldn't remember.
"Hold Shadow Bringer." the yellow eyed individual said the voice sounded female, "She could prove useful."
"How she killed a perfect life form!" Shadow Bringer retorted angrily.
Summer couldn't believe what she was hearing apparently these people worship the Grimm for what reason she had no Idea, "I refuse to help anybody who worships these things."
The black eyed man sighed "A pity, than you will die, Shadow Bringer kill her." he said in his whisper like voice.
"With pleasure Umbra." the young man said as he pulled out a sword hilt with nothing attached than he pressed a button and a ruby red blade of light sprout out from the hilt he took a stance and Summer did the same the others all stood by watching the event unfold, "After we're done here we'll go and finish what he was supposed to do, you only delayed those settlers the awakening to the truth." he told her.
Summer's eyes hardened "And what truth is that?!" she demanded.
"The same truth I'm about to show you!" Shadow Bringer shouted and shot his hand out, arcs of electricity flew at Summer who barely managed to avoid the attack 'so his semblance is electricity.' she thought to herself, then he picked up a stone without touching it and threw it at her,it hit her in the torso causing her eyes to widen 'How is that possible?' she asked herself, before she switched to her weapon to its gun form and shooting at him, Shadow Bringer held out his hand and the bullets each hit his hand without doing anything to him, doing the only thing she she could she took one of her dust crystals and threw it at him than she shot the crystal causing it to explode she rushed forward and struck him so hard that it knocked his mask askew and she could clearly see who it was.
"Yncѐ? I knew there was something off about you!" she said.
Shadow Bringer just laughed at her "You're more perceptive than I thought, you and your husband, which reminds me, Umbra, she has two daughters if one of them is a silver eyed warrior than they could be of use to our cause." he informed the group drawing a look of horror from Summer, and a look of intrigue from Umbra.
"Well than hurry up and finish her off so we can find this daughter of hers."
Summer's eyes started to act strangely it seemed like silver fire was coming out of them "Don't you Dare touch her!" she bellowed and started to ferociously attack Shadow Bringer and the others with abandon the group actually recoiled at the ferocity behind the assault, Shadow hunter was on the defensive unable to find an opening to counter, Summer swung her weapon around and caught the final member of the group with her weapons blade and bisected him, she than set her sight on Umbra and charged him he side stepped her over head swing and move out of the way he than launched a ball of telekinetic energy at the huntress when the ball hit her Summer found she couldn't move, she struggled for a moment and realised that she was paralyzed and now at the mercy of these people.
Umbra looked at the bisected man with the yellow eyed woman hovering over him, "How is he?"
The woman looked up at him. "He'll be fine, he'll just be half the man he used to be." she reported and went to work on cauterizing his wound.
"Good." he turned back to the helpless huntress, "I must say you're prowess impressed me, I suppose the legend of the silver eyed warriors are true, that begs the question, how many of the other legends on this world are true?" he asked not necessarily Summer.
Summer's eyes widened when he said world 'they're not from this world?' she thought.
"But enough of that I will find your daughter and turn her into an instrument of the Dark." Umbra promised.
"Fat chance I'd tell you where she is." Summer growled.
"You misunderstand you're cooperation isn't necessary though before I begin I feel I must say this before your mind is too warped for you to understand, Thank you for you help, you have proven most helpful." he told which confused her.
Summer suddenly felt a major headache coming on "Get out of my head!" she screamed while shaking her head trying to get rid of the presence invading her mind, she than decided to make things difficult she thought about random things and different locations the place she went to school anything but her family.
After several minutes Umbra withdrew from her mind "Your will power is astounding." he commented impressed, no one had ever fought him off before, "ah well it doesn't matter we'll find her at some point." he said, "You are no longer required." he stated and pointed his finger at her chest and started to move it down as he did this blood started to appear on Summer's white clothes and she screamed as she felt something cut into her, suddenly she felt a pain in her chest and she felt like her heart was being ripped out of her chest and given what she knew he probably was trying to rip her heart out, suddenly the pressure stopped and she looked forward and saw a sword protruding from Umbra's chest Summer looked behind him and saw her fellow team mate.
"Raven?" she asked weakly as she collapsed.
"What how?" the yellow eyed woman asked as she pulled out her weapon.
Umbra started to laugh, "You all never cease to impress me, though I have one thing to say, you missed my Vital organs." he told Raven who's eyes widened and she pulled her weapon out of his body.
Raven then jumped over Umbra and kicked him to the ground she grabbed Summer and cut the air behind them forming a portal she carried Summer through and the portal sealed behind them.
"Damn it they got away!" Shadow Bringer growled as he grabbed Summer's weapon.
"She won't survive." Umbra assured the group "Her heart's too damaged, nothing on this world not even her aura can help her in time."
Meanwhile at the hospital in Vale a portal opened up in the middle of the emergency room and Raven carrying an injured summer walked through "She needs a Doctor!" Raven shouted the Doctors sprang into action and told her to set her down on the Operating table Raven got on her scroll and contacted her Brother Qrow, "Qrow, I need you to bring Tai to the Vale city hospital immediately."
"Raven? What's wrong?" Qrow asked concerned.
"It's Summer." that was all she needed to say.
"We're on our way." Qrow told her and hung up.
After that she contacted Ozpin and told him that she brought Summer to Vale city hospital, it didn't take long for the three to arrive Oz arrived first as Beacon was closer than patch where Tai and Qrow were coming from.
Qrow and Tai showed up in the waiting room when they saw Raven and Oz they walked over to him "How is she?" Tai asked worried and rightfully so.
"We don't know yet the doctors are still doing what they can." Oz told Tai who nodded his head.
"I should have gone with her I thought that she would have been okay dealing with a White Grimm." Tai stated with grief.
"It wasn't a Grimm that did this." Raven said
"What do you mean?" Qrow asked.
"Summer contacted me to tell me she completed her mission however after ward she was ambushed by a group of four individuals." Oz told them.
"Were they White fang?" Tai Growled.
"No, I fear it's much worse than that." Oz said just as the Doctor walked through the Door with a somber expression on his face.
"Are you the next of kin?" he asked the group when he made it to them.
"Tai." Qrow said and looked at Tai.
"I'm her husband is she alright?" he asked hoping that the answer was, 'yes you can take her home next week.' but the answer he got was far worse than he could have imagined.
"She suffered massive damage to her heart there's nothing we can do I recommend that you all go in and say your goodbyes, I'm terribly sorry." the doctor said somberly.
Tai rushed in the room to find his wife hooked up to a life support machine but it could only do so much "Tai?" Summer asked weakly.
"Yes beloved I'm here." he said brokenly
Qrow, Raven, and Oz all came in afterwards, "I'm not going to make it… aren't I?" Summer asked.
Tai choked back a sob and that was all Summer needed to know the answer "Tai, Raven, Qrow I need you to do something for me."
"Anything." Tai said.
"Protect... Ruby and Yang the men who attacked me… they are after them." Summer gasped out and coughed.
"Of course Summer you can count on us." Qrow reassured her.
"Always." Summer smiled than the light from her eyes started to fade, her eyes closed and the life monitors flatlined telling them that Summer Rose had shed this mortal coil.
Tai started to weep as the doctor came into the room with the other workers were disconnecting all the equipment that held Summer, Tai ignored them as he grieved for the loss of his wife.
"Sir, I'm sorry for your loss." the doctor told him somberly.
"Thank you." Tai said not looking at him.
"Tai, I think maybe we should get out of their way." Qrow said while placing a hand on Tai's shoulder.
"Okay." Tai said and followed the others out of the room, they all walked up to the roof for some privacy, when they got up their Tai punched the wall in frustration "Why!" Tai screamed letting out his grief and anguish.
"I'm so sorry Taiyang." Oz said his own eyes welling up with tears of guilt, "I shouldn't have sent her on that mission…"
"Oz, it's not your fault." Tai interrupted "She made the choice to go on the mission, it could have easily just have been me." Tai said with tears flowing from his eyes.
"I think that she was their actual target if I heard everything right." Oz said with a shuddering breath.
"What do you mean Oz?" Qrow asked curiously his own eyes welled up with tears.
"Summer left the line open when she encountered these individuals I have it recorded right here." Oz said reaching into his pocket to show them the scroll, he hit the recording and the group listened to the whole encounter between Summer and this group.
"So they worship the Grimm?" Qrow asked incredulously.
"Apparently."
Meanwhile Tai was shaking with rage Yncѐ aka Shadow Bringer was one of the ones responsible for his wife's death, "I'm going to find these bastards and kill them myself!"
"Tai, we have no Idea what we're dealing with one of them took a fatal stab through the chest from my sword and laughed it off, and the one Summer got is still alive just legless." Raven said.
"That and we have no Idea where they are." Qrow said.
"Leave that to me." Raven said.
"That is a good idea Raven you find these people and get their location to us, Tai and Qrow you protect Ruby and Yang." Oz said.
"Oz, what about Summer's eyes made them want to go after her?" Qrow asked.
Ozpin sighed "In order to tell you I will have to bring you in on a top secret group."
"Okay." Tai said uncertainly
"This means that what I tell you stay betweens us and never leaves your mouths understood?" Oz said seriously.
The remainder of team SQTR nodded in understanding, "according to legend the silver eyed warriors have been around since long before the kingdoms and huntsman the creatures of grimm feared them infact they apparently had the ability to strike a Grimm down with a single look." Ozpin recounted
Qrow scoffed at that "You're kidding." the look on Ozpin's face told him that no indeed he wasn't.
"These people killed my wife because of some legend?!" Tai growled.
"There is some truth in myth Taiyang I know of a few that are true and it honestly wouldn't surprise me if the legend of the silver eyed warriors were true." Oz explained.
"Than that would explain why they'll be going after Ruby." Qrow realised.
"Does Ruby have the potential to use her powers?" Tai asked.
"She might, I never actually seen a silver eyed warrior use their powers in action but if the recording is anything to go by than Summer utilized her powers against these people so it wouldn't surprise me." Oz answered.
"You said that you know of other myths that are true what are they?" Raven asked, "I believe that these people may be looking into the myths and fairy tales to find other targets." she explained
Oz suddenly looked uncomfortable "The four maidens if they ever managed to get any of them to their side…" he couldn't finish that sentence and he didn't need to, the three hunters understood.
"What do you want us to do about it?" Qrow asked.
"Well Qrow I suppose you can do both protecting Ruby and those 4 maidens as well." Tai said
"That would certainly help fortunately You are not the only ones who know about this, James knows about them I'll be sure to let him know, as does Glynda, James can at least keep his eyes open." he told them.
"That's good." Qrow said.
"Is that all there is to know?" Tai asked.
"I can't go into any more now, but we must be careful we have no idea what Umbra and his cadre are capable of." Oz answered, "For now I recommend that you go home Taiyang be with your daughters, they'll need you now more than ever." Oz finished.
"I'll go with you Tai." Qrow told him.
"Thanks Qrow, what about you would you like to come see Yang?" Tai asked Raven.
Raven looked over to the side "I don't know." she answered hesitantly "I…"
"Don't bother." Tai interrupted harshly, "If you don't want to come than don't."
A tear of shame fell from Raven's eyes, "I'll get started on hunting these bastards." she stated and turned away from the group and cut the air with her sword forming a portal and stepped through it, it sealed almost immediately after she stepped through.
Tai turned to face the remaining two who looked at him with scolding looks "Oh don't give me that look, she abandoned Yang without any explanation." he told them.
Qrow just sighed in resignation "I know that Tai but you can't treat her like that."
"I'm sorry…" Tai said.
"I get it Tai, I think that we should be on our way now." Qrow told him.
"Yeah your right." Tai said exhausted, "We'll see you around Oz."
"Taiyang, I am truly sorry." Oz said.
"Thank you." Tai told him as they left the roof all the while thinking 'How am I going to tell Ruby and Yang that their mother isn't coming home?'
As Tai and Qrow approached the log house on patch Tai felt his eyes well up with tears "I can't do it." he said.
Qrow turned to face him his own eyes welled up with tears "You got to."
"How am I going to tell them that their mother isn't coming home?" Tai sniffled.
"Gently, you're going to sit them down and tell them gently." Qrow answered as tears fell from his eyes.
"The sooner the better." Tai said and walked into the home which would have one less occupant from now on "Girls I need to see you come into the living area please!" keeping his voice calm and level he turned back to see Qrow walking in.
He walked into the living area and found Ruby and Yang sitting on the couch "Daddy!" Ruby squealed and ran over to hug him, then she noticed that her dad was crying "Why are you sad daddy?" the three year old asked.
"Ruby please sit down?" Tai asked, the little girl obeyed and sat down next to her half sister, "I have some bad news."
Yang was worried and noticed that uncle Qrow also was crying "What happened dad?"
Tai took a shuddering breath "Mommy isn't coming home." he choked out.
Yang's eyes widened and welled up with tears.
"Where's Mommy going?" Ruby asked confused, Tai nearly broke down from the question as he realised that his three year old daughter didn't understand the concept of death.
"She's gone to heaven sweetheart." Tai answered, at that Ruby understood that her mother won't be coming back Ruby started to tear up and Tai brought her into a hug and she cried into his shirt Yang also joined in and the three family members cried in the middle of the room with Qrow looking on.
-9 years later-
Ruby, Yang, and Tai all visited Summers grave overlooking a cliff Ruby was standing in front of the grave while Tai and Yang stood back with their pet dog Zwei to allow Ruby to have some alone time with Summer.
"Hey Mom, it's me, Ruby." a now twelve year old Ruby started awkwardly, "So where do I begin?" she asked, "Oh, I just turned 12 last month and that means I'm qualified to go to Signal academy when the semester starts up in two months, Qrow has been helping me out by teaching me how to fight I'm so much better now than I used to be." Ruby stated then faded into silence, "... I'm nervous about starting school though, Dad says that I'll be fine and that I'll make friends, but… I don't know."
She stared at the gravestone, as if she was expecting to hear a response.
"I miss you Mom." Ruby said her voice full of emotion, and looked into the blue sky, "I hope that you're happy wherever you are." she said sincerely, than in the distance she saw a shooting star falling towards the planet, she saw it crash down in the valley that the cliff over looked she looked back at her dad and Yang to see if they saw it as well given their expressions they did.
"What was that?" Yang asked.
"A meteoroid probably nothing to worry to about." Tai answered.
"Should we check it out?" Ruby asked.
"I don't see any real need Ruby." Tai answered, how ever Zwei started to bark and tried to run in the direction of the object but Tai had a firm grip on his leash.
"Whatever it is it's got Zwei all riled up." Yang commented.
"Dad maybe we should check it out." Ruby stated.
Tai looked at his daughters and sighed "I'll get Qrow to do it, okay?" he compromised.
"Okay dad." Ruby agreed and left it at that, not knowing that Qrow would discover one of the first steps to finding her mother's killers at the crash site.
AN: Special thanks to RevengeS197 he's the one who suggested I do this and I admit it was fun though I did hate that I put Summer through such a painful death, also explanation when Umbra was pointing at Summer and cutting her, what he was doing was using his telekinesis to cut her I took inspiration from the TV shoo Heroes the main antagonist uses a similar method to kill his victims it's pretty gruesome I may have to change this to M (let me know in the Reviews if I should), also a lot of the scene where Summer confronts Umbra and the others is inspired by Jedi knight: Dark forces 2 it's a great star wars game the graphics may be a little dated but still fun also it has live action cut scenes, any please Read and review.