I remember the first day of Jenna's residence at Beacon. We kept her up in Professor Ozpin's office, and she was quiet and well-behaved.
"Um... Ms. Goodwitch?" I felt a tug on my cape and looked down at the girl. "Can I have a book to read?"
"A book?" I frowned. Didn't little girls like dolls and dresses? Even when I was a child, I wasn't wanting to read until I was seven years of age.
"Yes, ma'am. Do you have any Harry Potter?"
"Yes..." This was strange. That level of book was usually read by older children, teenagers, and adults. Not a five year-old girl. "I think that Professor Ozpin has them on his bookshelf." Jenna beamed and walked over, looking at all of the books with wide eyes before taking the first Harry Potter book. Going over and sitting in a small chair towards the back of the office, Jenna began reading the book with a smile on her face. "Hmm..."
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At the end of the day, after overseeing all of the sparring classes, I returned to the office. Sorcerer's Stone and Chamber of Secrets were on the table next to Jenna's chair, Prisoner of Azkaban in her hands.
"Hi, Ms. Goodwitch!" Jenna looked up and waved. I raised an eyebrow, walking over to her.
"You read both of these?" I gestured to the first two books. Jenna nodded, smiling brightly.
"Yep."
"Most adults can not finish these books in a day."
"Uh-huh."
"How did you?"
"I'm fast."
"Address of the Dursleys' house?"
"Number Four Privet Drive."
"Harry Potter's middle name?"
"James, after his dad."
"Mother's name?"
"Lily."
"Owl?"
"Hedwig, a snowy owl."
"Harry Potter's best friends?"
"Hermione and Ron." Jenna was looking at me with a curious expression. I was stunned.
"You really read all of those books?" I asked. Jenna nodded.
"It seems that she is a child of many talents." Ozpin strolled over, coffee mug in one hand and cane in the other.
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That night, the girl slept in a room in the teachers' quarters, next to Ozpin's and across from mine. I woke up in the middle of the night to hear laughter. The other teachers didn't know of the girl yet, and we intended to tell them in the morning. I doubted that they'd take kindly to being awakened by a child's laughter. Irritated, I left my room to find Ozpin doing the same, and I quietly opened the door to Jenna's room.
"Impossible..." I stared. The small girl was sitting on the floor in a meditative position, laughing as objects coated in frost levitated and flew around the room. Ozpin and I entered.
"Hi!" Jenna waved, then flicked her right hand. The objects returned to their proper places, the frost flying off and into Jenna's hand, forming a snowball. The sphere then dissolved into blue sparks. "Sorry... I was practicing."
"You seem to have a great deal of control over your abilities." Ozpin noted. Jenna nodded.
"Cinder taught me."
"How?"
"Her semblance... She used her knowledge to help me with my ice."
"I see... What else do you know how to do?"
"Well, there are a few other things. But, they're scary."
"You're afraid?"
"No." Jenna replied. To this, Ozpin and I frowned.
"Then..." I raised an eyebrow. "What do you mean, scary?"
"I'm not the scared one. My mommy said that people were scared of the Winter Maiden, back when they knew. They thought she was too powerful, and very scary."
"Why?" I asked. Jenna took a deep breath, looking down.
"I don't wanna talk about it..." The child yawned, looking around tiredly. "I miss Cinder."
"I know." I sighed and scooped the child up, setting her in her bed. "But... Your older sister has gone away."
"Like my mom?"
"Yes, we think so."
"I hope Mommy's nicer wherever they are... Cinder was always scared of Mommy and Daddy... They were always yelling." Jenna curled up, wrapping the turquoise hood we'd found her with around herself. "Cinder shouldn't need to be scared." With that, the small child fell asleep. I sat down on the bed and rubbed her back soothingly.
"No maternal instincts?" Ozpin crossed his arms and smirked. I shot a glare at him, frowning.
"Oh, be quiet!"
"This child never had parents who properly cared for her, and now her sister is gone." Ozpin stated seriously, then smiled. "I believe that you and I can fill the void in her life if we tried." I looked down at the little girl, and tried to hide the fact that I smiled.
/\/\/\/\/\
Two years later...
"Jenna Elurra!" I snapped. "Stop freezing the courtyard!" The little girl laughed mischievously.
"Sorry, Mom!" Jenna giggled, then got serious. "But, I had to intervene." I sighed, shaking my head as I went over to see what she was looking out the window of Ozpin's office.
"More people bullying Faunus?" I asked, and Jenna nodded. It wasn't that bad, actually. None of the students knew that Jenna existed. The child had a hobby of looking out the window, and whenever she saw the students picking on each other (especially with human-on-Faunus violence), she would use her magic to freeze the ground under the offender's feet, making them fall to buy time for the victim to get away. Jenna would always melt the ice and cover her tracks, so people were none the wiser. I honestly found her heroics quite humorous at times... "Well, just make sure you don't get caught."
"Yes, Mom..." Jenna smirked. "Dad was laughing so hard that he nearly spat out his coffee!" Over two years, Jenna had forgotten her past. We didn't talk about it, and I suppose that most of her would have rather forgotten... Eventually, Ozpin and I went from Mr. and Ms. to Dad and Mom. It was a shocking change at first, but we'd accepted it eventually. Ozpin even purchased a #1 Dad mug. The other teachers were fully supportive of our choice to take Jenna in. They didn't know about her powers, just that she was a little girl we'd found on the streets while visiting the kingdom of Mistral. Bartholomew came to respect the girl after she'd managed to vanish on him, claiming that if she was fast enough to escape even his notice, she was alright in his book. Port liked the child because, somehow, she found his stories mesmerizing. The rest came to love the girl, as well.
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Six years later...
"Now that you've finished basic combat training..." Ozpin began. "It's time for you to build your weapon." Ozpin and I had brought Jenna up with a proper homeschooled education, and she had expressed interest in becoming a Huntress. Now, Jenna was beaming as we stood in the forges.
"I've got a really, really good idea." The thirteen year-old smiled. Ozpin and I left, returning several hours later to find Jenna calibrating several microchips, still grinning. Then, she placed the microchips and a few Dust crystals into two ornate silver cylinders with holes in the tops and teal buttons on the sides (and each bearing an unsettling switch labeled lethal and nonlethal). The two devices didn't look like much, but neither did my riding crop or Ozpin's cane. We went to the arena, and...
"Let's see, then." I crossed my arms, Ozpin taking a sip of coffee. Jenna nodded, then pressed the two buttons, igniting two glowing blue blades.
"Laser-induced plasma." Ozpin marveled, impressed. "Perfectly stabilized." Then, pressing buttons on the bottoms of the hilts, both changed into small guns with switches that read stun and kill. Finally, Jenna slammed the bottoms of both blades together, forming a staff... Twin blades that could become guns and a staff. "Let's see what they can do. What opponent would you like to face on the simulator?"
"There are Beowolves, Ursai, Boarbatusks..." I named a few. Jenna thought for a second, then looked up at us.
"I want to fight a Death Stalker." The girl stated. I immediately decided to protest her choice.
"What? Jenna, these may be simulations, but they can actually kill you. I'm not letting you-"
"Alright." Ozpin hit the simulator, and a Death Stalker appeared. I looked at him, astonished.
"Ozpin, you can't be serious!"
"She believes she can do this. I trust her judgement."
"Thanks, Dad!" Jenna smiled, the grew focused as she disconnected her weapons and morphed them into guns. The Death Stalker roared and charged, but Jenna leapt onto its back, out of the reach of the claws and tail. Firing, Jenna took out three of the beast's eyes before morphing her weapons into swords, using her Winter Maiden abilities to fly up and slice the stinger off. Flying higher, Jenna let herself fall on the stinger, sending it piercing through the giant scorpion's armor. As the Death Stalker writhed, Jenna drove both blades into its head, killing the Grimm. All of this happened in seconds. "See? I had it covered."
"Indeed." Ozpin took a sip of his coffee, both of us with wide eyes. Jenna smiled brightly.
"Learned from the best." The young girl winked. I looked at Ozpin.
"You may be okay with her fighting Death Stalkers, but just you wait until she brings a boy home."
"I'll be fine... Glynda, remind me to purchase a gun."
/\/\/\/\/\
Four years later...
"It's time for you to finally begin the next stage of your journey." Ozpin handed Jenna an envelope, the both of us smiling at our adopted daughter. Jenna took the envelope and beamed.
"Well... Here go the next four years."
It begins... I only own my OC.
