Autumn- What's up people!? Whether you clicked this story by accident or you were bored enough to read it, I hope you end up enjoying the weirdness of what two VERY bored chicks decided to write together. (Yes it is a very weird story but it does get interesting probably around chapter four for all I know. Just know there is a plot hiding somewhere and if you don't agree tell me.)
Lilac- You are giving away the story by talking! Just let them read!
Qrow- Why am I here?
Lilac- Because we love you and you're one of the author's favorite characters.
Qrow- I don't believe you because Autumn is too Salty.
Autumn- Let's just start the story.
"Okay admit it, we're lost." The 20 year old girl stated. Wind brushed past the two ladies as the walked down an alleyway that seemed to be getting darker with the dimming lights. "You thought you knew where the new restaurant opened up but I think the farther we go we are going to end up running into some trouble like we always do."
"Oh stop it, you're making me nervous. We'll be fine. We're always fine." Reassured the other girl. She was always the one to try and make a situation more positive than it likely was. "Autumn, you always doubt me."
"Of course I do, Lilac! And I always seem to be right." Autumn crossed her arms in annoyance.
"Whatever mom." Lilac laughed.
"Okay it's always weird when you call me that. For the last time I'm your sister."
"It's a joke Autumn, calm down."
Just then some noise erupted from behind the two girls. They turned to witness something they shouldn't have; a man nearly beating another man to death.
"Hey! You'll kill him! Stop!" yelled Lilac. Autumn grabbed her arm as the man turned his attention to the two girls.
"We better run." Autumn whispered. "Or we'll be goners."
Lilac didn't seem to back down from the man's glare and he came charging after them. Autumn didn't want to see how the fight would end so she pulled Lilac into the nearest building. That building just so happened to be a bar.
"Are you crazy?! He's going to come in here and attack us!" Autumn shouted, wanting to slap her sister if it weren't for how scared she was. Lilac was going to rebuttal but the man came charging in. All of the sudden Lilac started using her hidden powers and making the room shift.
Another man who apparently was also in the room came up behind the murderous man, hit him in the head with a glass bottle and knocked him out.
"There is no need to start a battle young lady." The man said. "This guy wouldn't even be able to handle a fight."
"Well sure you knocked him out but he almost killed a guy outside the bar!" shouted Lilac.
"Yeah and you almost took the guy out with one magical hit later." The man looked her over. "Where did you get that kind of power?"
Lilac was quiet and Autumn looked at her, "Lilac? What is he talking about?"
"Nice to meet you Lilac, I'm Qrow. I'm not going to hurt you but I do know you are what they call 'the Spring maiden'. Are you aware of that?"
Lilac slowly nodded, a young boy came up from behind Qrow. "Umm can someone tell me what's going on?"
"I agree with the kid. What are you two talking about?" Autumn asked. Qrow looked at Lilac with a questioning stare and Lilac looked at the ground.
"I'm not a kid. I can take care of myself thank you very much!" said the boy and Autumn laughed.
"Oh okay. Sorry I didn't mean to strike a nerve. Hi, my name is Autumn." she held out her hand and the boy looked down. He shyly shook her hand.
"I'm Oscar." He mumbled.
"Okay, okay. How about we go somewhere to discuss this?" Qrow asked openly.
"Well we were about to go eat before we almost witnessed a murder..." Autumn said under her breath.
"Okay let's go back to my place and we can eat." Qrow said.
"Finally," Autumn and Oscar said in unison. They looked at each other. Autumn laughed and Oscar looked down again.
Qrow shook his head and smiled. "Okay let's go."
"Okay I invited you over... Shouldn't I be the one cooking?" Qrow asked Autumn.
"Well this doesn't seem to actually be your place; This is just a hotel room that has a kitchen to make dinner. You better like spaghetti and salad." Autumn said. "And I don't mind cooking, I'm a picky eater."
"You should have seen her the last time we actually went to a restaurant. She complained that they didn't use real meat." Lilac rolled her eyes.
"Well they didn't! It tasted like garbage and I'm not going to eat food I'm gonna get sick from!" Autumn spat as she set the table and passed out dinner.
"Well it smells good, thanks." Qrow took a flask out, "Cheers."
"Is that alcohol?" Autumn asked.
"No its Vitamin water. What do you think would be in this flask?" Qrow laughed. Autumn frowned and crossed her arms. Qrow just shrugged her off.
"Okay.. So who is talking first..? I would like to know what's really going on here." Oscar spoke out.
"Shouldn't you already know? Ozpin should have said at least a few things to you." spinning his fork around Qrow looked at his food skeptically as he mumbled to Oscar.
"Who's Ozpin?" Lilac and Autumn asked in unison.
Qrow and Oscar looked at each other. Oscar started flushing and Qrow released an uneasy breath.
"Don't worry about that sweethearts. Just worry about how we are going to keep Lilac safe. She has a price on her head along with those gifts of hers. Which, by the way, she needs to learn to use. You two looked like you were never trained to fight." stated Qrow. Lilac smiled in agreement and Autumn glowed in anger.
"Excuse me!? Don't go calling me sweetheart." Autumn snapped her fingers at him. "Well sorry we're not trained to fight, I actually rather get along with people instead of fighting them when I'm drunk which I can only assume you do if you carry that flask around. Lilac and I have been through a lot together and survived just fine so don't go telling me you can't tell me who this Ozpin is or who these people who want my sister's head on a stick are. I want someone to give me straight answers real quick. Oscar seems to know things, Lilac seems to know things, and you Mr. Birdbrain seem to know things. So someone better open their mouth and explain to me what's going on." Autumn shouted. Everyone looked at her wide eyed and she felt her face flush. "...sorry... It's been a long week..."
"Sure..." Qrow dragged the word out in the awkward silence. He began to explain to Autumn the story of the four Maidens and their powers. He also told both Lilac and Autumn about Ozpin being the former headmaster at Beacon.
"Wait! Autumn didn't we want to go to Beacon but we couldn't because of all that crap that happened to us? They told us we weren't qualified or something. I don't remember..." Lilac asked her sister and Autumn casted her gaze to the floor.
"So there's obviously more than one reason why you don't fight or even know how to. You couldn't make it into the school, could you weak stuff?" Qrow smirked. Autumn looked as if she could kill the man and make him burn in flames with her gaze.
"No, I couldn't feather face... But you wanna know what I can do right now!?" Autumn goes to get up to fight, Qrow seems to play along but Oscar and Lilac break it up.
"Geez, Autumn you don't have to be so rude to the guy." Lilac said, trying to calm her sister down.
"I think we all need to take a breather and just eat, okay?" Oscar replied and everyone sat back down.
"Hope you don't choke on your food." Autumn mumbled to Qrow and jabbed at her food.
"I'm not sure if I lost my appetite do to the lovely Blonde sitting next to me." Qrow quirked at Autumn.
She looked back down at her food angrily, "So I guess this means you eat like a bird. And by the way I dyed my hair ginger but it's fading so you need to get your eyes checked."
Lilac and Oscar looked at each other worriedly. Autumn and Qrow watched them, then Autumn decided to leave the room excusing herself.
"Sorry for my sister. She's not only overprotective but she has kinda been through a lot. I'd rather not talk about that though." Lilac began, "So you said I'm in danger? Are the other seasons in danger too? How do I stay safe? You were right, I don't actually know how to fight. And if anything involves leaving my sister behind, I can't do it because she's the only family I have."
"I'm sorry sweetheart but family or no family, your life is at stake. And right now you are too important to have a weak spot, that weak spot being your sister. They can use her against you at any time if they get their hands on you. I'll have enough on my plate looking over you and Oscar, I'm not sure I can babysit your sister too."
Just then a young girl came in. "Uncle Qrow? Who are these people?"
"Well Ruby, I would like you to meet Oscar and Lilac. Ozpin and the Spring maiden." Qrow introduced them. "Another girl might be coming back soon and her name is Autumn... She's just Lilac's sister. She's not a maiden."
"Oh... Well nice to meet you all. Doesn't having the Spring maiden save a lot of worry and time? You said we needed her in order to make sure the world doesn't, you know, get destroyed." Ruby asked.
"Well it's not that simple. We need to find a way to protect her now." Qrow said.
"I can't leave my sister behind though!" Exasperated Lilac. Ruby looked at her in a sad but knowing manner.
"I had to leave my sister. It was difficult for me to leave her, but I know that she's safe." Ruby said.
"I can't just leave her. She's all I have. It's always been the two of us against the world."
"I'm sorry Lilac." Qrow said.
Lilac glared at him.
"I don't care how important I am to you. I'm not leaving Autumn behind. So if you really need me, you'll have to drag me out of here kicking and screaming because I refuse to leave my sister."
"I have a plan." Ruby chimed in. Lilac and Qrow's attention was focused on Ruby. "We need to throw Salem off. We will have power in numbers, we can take Salem out by taking out any of her followers by dividing them and attacking one person at a time."
"Divide and conquer, not a bad idea." Qrow began to give the idea a little thought. "Only problem, Autumn and Lilac have no training."
"Then we train them. Stay low and plan, I guess. We can't split them up, we would do better having both of them." Ruby stated and Qrow started caving in. When it came to Ruby, Qrow would almost do anything.
"Okay to improve the plan a little more," Qrow began, "we make Autumn look like the Spring maiden." Everyone was looking at Qrow now and he started to explain his plan a little more. "If we ever get caught they will realize we have the Spring maiden. Why not give them the wrong season?"
"I'll do it!" Autumn came rushing into the room. "If it means staying with Lilac and looking out for her, I'll do anything. Show me how to fight Birdman."
"Since he's teaching us how to fight I don't think you should upset him. For all we know his temper is as bad as ours."
Qrow stared at Lilac. "You have a bad temper?"
"Yeah. It's not pretty when I'm angry." she said without a hint of humor. She had a stare that cut the room in half.
"I'll keep that in mind." Qrow looked away from her intimidating vibe. "So I need both little Ms. Sweetheart" Qrow pointed at Lilac, "and little Ms. Salty" Qrow pointed at Autumn, "to get ready to take notes."
"Ms. Sweetheart?" Lilac asked.
"And why am I Ms. Salty?!"Autumn exclaimed. "Okay… If it's because earlier… I have every right to just be mad at you."
Qrow just gave Autumn a look. "No you don't Salty and to start this whole thing off we need to start off simple. We will have to learn what your semblances are, how we can make Autumn look like the spring maiden, and basic combat skills."
"We could dye her hair again." Lilac suggested.
"I'm guessing you two are twins?" Qrow asked and the sisters nodded their heads. "Okay then your semblances should almost be the same. It's not like that for me and Raven but it might be for you two. So we can definitely trick Salem with you two."
"You have a twin sister named Raven?" Autumn looked at him skeptically.
"Yeah, why?" Qrow shrugged.
"What was up with your parents and bird names? I might start believing you when you tell me that you can also transform into a bird" Autumn said sarcastically and Qrow got quiet. "oh crap you turn into a crow don't you?"
Qrow looked at Autumn annoyed. "I would laugh if you were the Spring maiden because you are anything but a time of new life and happiness. The name Autumn suites you. Life begins to die with you around."
Lilac glared at him.
"I suggest you keep those comments to yourself. Life doesn't die with autumn it helps the world prepare for new life in the spring." Snapped Lilac.
"I'm not about to have this argument with you sweetheart. She insults me, she better prepare to get a taste of her own medicine." Qrow said.
"Arguing isn't going to help us become stronger." Lilac said.
"Okay, okay. But tell your sister to keep her opinions of me to herself." Qrow started. "Now we need to really think out how we can convince Salem that Autumn is Spring."
"Haha. Okay but what if I had something nice to say about you?" Autumn asked.
"Are you really about to get off topic Salty?" Qrow rolled his eyes. "As if you would say something nice at this point. You are worse than Raven."
"Okay, fine! In order to prove that I can get along with you to save the world, I will say something nice and mean it!" Autumn sat there to actually think of what to say and Qrow just rolled his eyes. Before Qrow told her to just give up Autumn spoke up, "I'm strangely attracted to you."
Everyone in the room went silent and looked at her. Lilac seemed to be containing laughter; she knew her sister too well. Ruby just had her mouth hanging open. Qrow's face lit up like a Christmas tree and he just sort of sat there with eyes wide open. Oscar's whole demeanor seemed to have fallen and Autumn turned to him, "Don't worry short stuff, you are something I would want to take off the candy shelf."
Lilac couldn't contain herself any longer and she burst out laughing. Ruby seemed to have fainted. Qrow threw something at Autumn and Oscar flushed.
"Are you done?" Qrow glared at Lilac. He could tell by the smirk on her face that she wasn't going to stop laughing any time soon. "Let's figure out training arrangements in the morning. Right now we will figure out who's sleeping where. But before that. Autumn…"
"Yes, bird brain?"
"Would you like some coffee?" Qrow asked.
"This late at night? I'm afraid if I drink it now I will be up all night."
"What if you drink it from my mouth? Like a mama bird-"
"No!" both Lilac and Autumn shouted.
"I think I'm done with the bird references." Autumn said tiredly.
"Well finally. I was wondering how many of those lame jokes you were gonna keep putting out there." Qrow stated. "Now that I got you to stop being so sassy, let's discuss room arrangements."
"I'm with Lilac." Autumn announced.
"Of course you are, that's what I'm getting at" Qrow said. "We need to keep you hidden also. That's where the problem starts. If we get an extra room and are discovered by Salem or any of her following minions, things might not end well if we don't finish planning or train. We need to keep you both on the down low."
"I'm still going to share a room with Lilac." Autumn crossed her arms.
Qrow rolled his eyes, "How does sleeping on the floor of mine and Oscar's room sound?"
"Wait… You already planned on me being here?" Oscar asked.
"Ozpin told me ahead of time about what might happen if I ran into you, yes." Qrow answered. "But now we are also going to share a room with these lovely ladies so they can be trained to fight a criminal master mind."
"So long as I get a blanket and pillow." Autumn yawned.
"That's fine," Lilac yawned, "I think I'm gonna fall asleep standing here."
Qrow stood, "Okay let's get some shut eye. There's going to be a long day of training tomorrow."
Autumn, Lilac, Oscar, and Qrow walked to their new room. Ruby went back to her room to explain the situation to her teammates.
"Blanket, pillow, I want sleep." Autumn demanded.
"You are going to be a pain in my a-" Qrow started but was cut off by Oscar.
"Here, you can have my spare." Oscar held out the blanket and pillow. Autumn flushed.
"I ship it." Lilac whispered.
"What?" Qrow asked.
"Nothing." Lilac said. She was trying not to giggle like a schoolgirl.
Qrow gave her a weird look. "Okay then. Let's get some shut eye before I lose my mind."
"Awesome! Night everyone!" Autumn plopped on the floor.
"Good night!" Lilac said.
"More like good luck to me." Qrow mumbled.
"Goodnight." Oscar flushed and went in his bed and slept.
This began the new journey of the hidden maiden...with friends.
