Making Everything Right
Introduction
"You can see a lot from up can't you?" asked a little girl who is about 12 years old with red and white hair that reached down to the middle of her back. "Huh? Sorry I wasn't listening. What did you say Lilith?" I said. "I said you can see a lot of Vale from Beacon can't you. I mean the view is just breath taking you know especially when the sun is setting" said Lilith with wonder in voice. "I mean if you call seeing a city from the top of clilf that has been ravaged by war a 'breath taking view'" I said with slightly harsh tone. "Why do you always have to be so mean? What would our parents say if they heard talk like that? I mean if they were still around, you know" "You mean what if your parents were still alive. Did you forget that your parents adopted me fifteen years ago on the day biological parents died and do you not remember that was also the day I was born and when this terrible war started. And by the way I wasn't trying to mean, I was just pointing out a fact" I said to my little cousin. "I'm sorry Peter, I didn't mean to bring that up again. It's just that I miss them so much" she said with tears in her eyes. "It's alright I know you didn't mean to, and I miss them too, ok. Let's head back inside before everyone starts to worry about us ok?" I said reassuring my little cousin with my hand on her shoulder. "Ok" she said with eyes that showed that she still had her childhood innocence.
Lilith and I began to walk away from the edge of the cliff towards the entrance hall of Beacon Academy. "Hey Peter do you want to spar with me or are you busy?" asked a boy about my age. "Sorry I can't spar right now. Maybe later, ok Shane." "Oh….ok" Shane said with a hint of disappointment in his voice. Lilith and I kept walking until we came to the library where I was doing my research into an ancient ritual that could help put an end to this never nightmare. "So when will your finish this project of yours"? Lilith asked. "I should be done any day now, and when I'm done I will be able to end this war once and for all" I said with a tinge of overconfidence. "So what is this little project of yours?" asked a tall man with gray hair, a pair of green colored glasses on his face and a cup of coffee in one hand and a scroll in the other. "Oh hello Professor Ozpin, I didn't see you there. Well this project of mine is an ancient ritual that will allow me to go back to any point in time" I said finally revealing what my plan was to anyone. "Well if anyone can pull off an ambitious plan like that it would be you Peter. I mean you are the child of two of the most promising students that have ever graced these halls" said Professor Ozpin. "Wait your plan is to go back in time? Why didn't you tell me? And how would going back in time put an end to this war" asked Lilith with a horrified look on her face. "By going back in time I could put an end to this war before it even started, and in the process I would be saving both your parents, my parents, the parents of every child in this academy and the whole world…" Lilith couldn't wrap her mind around what I was saying but I could see in her eyes that she understood how important my project was, and I went about putting the final touches on the ritual. But before I started working I looked at the door to the library, and I saw a queer look on his face that seemed to me to be a combination of pride, fear and relief. The look on his face somehow made me feel that what I was going to do was the only way to save the world, and it worried me to no end.
After a about four hours of hard work I was done with the preparations for the ritual which involved drawing a series of ancient symbols inside of several concentric rings with lines that intersected each circle forming a large glyph about twenty feet in diameter on the floor of the library. With most of the work done all that was left was performing the ritual and going back in time, but before I went through with the ritual I decided to get some dinner because it was getting late and I was hungry. When I arrived in the dining hall all the children where there whose ages ranged from about four to fifteen and I was one of the oldest children how called Beacon home because of the war that was going on outside the walls we called home. "Hey look at the faunus doesn't she look funny with those huge rabbit ears of hers" said a small boy who was about seven. I felt an intense anger building in me from what the boy had said because I was half faunus myself because my mother had been a faunus whose name was Blake Belladonna, and my Father was actually a woman whose name was Yang Xiao Long. They had fallen in love at Beacon about twenty-five years ago when they were first year students and Beacon, and they got married while still going to Beacon at the age of twenty and at the age of twenty-two they decided to start a family together, and they underwent an experimental procedure so that they could have children together. The procedure involved taking an egg cell from each of them and taking the nucleus of one egg cell and injecting it into the other egg cell. When my parents went through the process they decided that they wanted a boy, so the X chromosome from Yang's egg cell was turned into a fully functioning Y chromosome. But nine months later both my parents died on the day I was born. Yang died because she was attacked by the forces of Grimm along with thousands of other people and faunus, and Blake died because of complications that arose when she was giving birth to me. "Hey! Don't make fun of her because she's a faunus. You do realize that that both humans and faunus are sacrificing themselves so that we will remain safe from all the Grimm that want to kill us all. And all of us here have lost people we love to this war!" I wasn't surprised when I turned around and saw that my cousin was the one who spoke up in defense of the faunus girl. I hugged my cousin because I wanted to hurt the boy and she was the only biological family that I had in this world. "Thanks for speaking up Lilith, and it couldn't have been easy to say that last part." "I know...but more importantly how are you feeling?" she asked. "A little angry to be honest, but I will feel better after I eat a nice meal" I said as my stomach began to growl loudly.
After grabbing our food, we both sat down at a table with four friends of ours. These friends of ours were the children of the members of Team JNPR. Shane and his older sister, Melanie,was my age were the children of Jaune Arc and Pyrrha Nikos and the other two were the children of Lie Ren and Nora Valkyrie. My cousin was the child of Ruby Rose and Weiss Schnee, and she was conceived by the same process that my parents used to start their family. But before we could start eating our dinner with our friends, I was worried like when I saw the look on Ozpin's face I realized why I was worried because I would end up losing all my friends that I had made while here at Beacon, and in this moment my worst fears came to life. I was shaken from my mental state into the present when the windows to the dining hall had been blown into tiny pieces by an enormous explosion, and within seconds the forces of Grimm where all over the grounds of Beacon. Several Beowolves made their way into the dining hall and made short work of guards stationed in the dining hall. Many of the teenagers including myself tried to lead the younger children to safety while the guards and professors protected us. Melanie and I lead at least twenty children to the safe zone deep within Beacon, but we could still hear the Grimm rip though the armor and flesh of the guards and the screams of children and adults alike before they were silenced by a quick swipe of a claw. "Melanie take care of Lilith for me will you?" "What?! Are planning on going out there alone without any weapons or backup?! Are you craz….." I kissed her to make her be quite while I explained my plan to her. "Are you sure that is the only chose you have? I mean have you even tested your theory. Are you even sure that your plan will succeed" she said while trying to comprehend my plan. "This is the only way because weather you like it or not today is the day that Beacon and the world a Man and Faunus meet their end ate the hands of the forces of Grimm." After saying that I hugged my cousin and told her not to worry about me and that I would see her again, and before I left the safe zone I kissed Melanie one more because she was the only girl I had ever loved, but I didn't show her how I felt until now.
I slowly made my to the library by staying in the shadows so the Grimm would not detect my presence. After about ten minutes finally reached the library, I looked around to make sure no Grimm were nearby or in the library and emerged from the shadows and closed and locked the doors to the library. I had to be quick so the Grimm couldn't catch wind of my presence even though I was hiding my aura. "You finally made it I see." When I heard someone talk to me in the library, I jumped about five feet back straight into one of the bookshelves, and I looked around to see how it was but I didn't have to look long because the voice was Ozpin's. "Sorry for scaring you like that Peter, but you need to hurry with ritual" Ozpin said with haste. "I know just let me get my things ok." I walked to a table near the ritual glyph, and I picked up my weapons and other useful item from the table and put them on my person. "You look like your parents with all those weapons and pouches on you." When Ozpin said that I could hear the sadness in his voice and why he always had that look on his face whenever he looked at me. "You miss them all don't you, Ozpin" I asked Ozpin who was now sitting on the floor of the library bleeding from several injuries over his body. "Yes, I do. And you are the only hope for this world because every other combat school and academy has already fallen and every fighter both human and faunus is either dead or dying, and all fell to the Grimm. I never imagined that they could become this powerful…" in mid speech, Ozpin finally succumb to injuries he had sustained on his way to the library. It will not be long before the Grimm get a whiff of his dead body I thought to myself as I walked over to his fresh corpse and closed his eyes and gave a quick prayer for his soul, and when I touched his corpse I saw his memories both old and new and took what was left of his aura and his semblance because my semblance is the ability to absorb someone's aura and copy their semblance through the connection formed between our shadows or through direct touch, and to control my own shadow. When I was done giving my respects to Ozpin, I saw his scroll on the ground next to him and took it. Ozpin's scroll will be a valuable aid in time I thought while walking to the ritual area. I activated true power of my semblance I became enveloped in a combination of black and white flames when I my light-shadow form the glyph began to glow and react with my semblance and aura. The glyph came to life bending, folding in on itself and rippling, and after a few moments I was ready to travel back in time but before I left I heard the screams of those I considered my family and then silence, and in that moment I became the loneliest person in the world. Seconds later I heard banging and scratching on the door to the library. "The Grimm are trying to get in, but they are too late. I call upon the forces that control both time and space, here my words take me to the past. TAKE ME TO TWENTY-TWO YEARS INTO THE PAST WHEN MY PARTENTS WHERE ONLY FIFTEEN."
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